WSDOT said there is no “good weekend” for disruptive closures, but the agency must take advantage of the short dry-weather construction season.
Once again the state government is showing how much more important the state government is than the residents of the state. Even the “best dry weather” is no longer for the residents.
Seems more like someone as WSDOT doesn’t like protests.
I really think the big problem here is that we keep deferring maintenance and piling it into these huge projects all at once. It’s unfortunate that they need dry weather, but the work has to be done.
What’s fucking insane is that we just don’t have viable alternatives to the highway system. There’s no regular trains or metro. The bus network is sparse and slow. It seems like in countries that don’t have our congestion and construction problems they have viable alternatives to driving and so have lower infrastructure costs. Those lower costs translate to more periodic, off peak maintenance.
We absolutely should get more of the beautiful weather to ourselves and I do think that the state government and WSDOT aren’t really aligned with making that possible particularly soon 😂
People who get used to lazy-driving I-5 alla time tend to not have worked out how to do N-S travel off-the-beaten-path. (I’m not giving away the secret routes.) East-West driving is harder, especially if you have to cross the lazy-line.
Despite the 15-minute waits, the bus system is okay unless your journey is a long one. (From what I’ve read, though, in many large cities they expect 5-to-10-minute waits, then get pissed.) If you’re near a RapidRide that goes where you going, it’s not bad … otherwise, a several mile trip is an hour to 1.5 hours -each way- , with -at least- one transfer (each of which may take up to an added 15 minutes).
Again, N-S on light rail is pretty damned swift … IF you don’t need an E-W bus at either end. OF COURSE the rail - like Aurora - is RIGHT NEXT to the freeway.
