Remember that post I made yesterday about how we’re gonna replace the viaduct with a tunnel? And how stupid the idea is, and how it makes my blood run black with white-hot rage? (Look it up, by the way. This happens all the time in the big city when effete liberals get P.O.’d: our blood actually turns black, and we become untrifleable-with.)
Anyway, today I’m happy to provide a link to HugeAssCity, one of my favorite blogs, where Dan Bertolet calms me down by asking a few questions like, “How likely is this to actually happen?” Answer: it’s far from a done deal. Take a look. Dan has black blood syndrome, too, but actually knows what he’s talking about, unlike Uncle Vinny.
Remember how they gave us a ballot on the viaduct and left off the part about not replacing it at all? And since we didn’t want to replace it at all, much less with an expensive tunnel or another 40-foot eyesore, we voted “none of the above?”. And how they then decided to go ahead and build a tunnel anyway? Well, my hope is that they’ll take the old thing down, then run out of oomph, and we’ll get what we probably would have voted for if it were on the ballot – namely, nothing.
That is my hope.
Just a southerner here (Portland), but a tunnel seems like a nicer option that what exists now. And I don’t have to pay for it. So a win, win!