The batshit insane Wells is not getting his cut-and-cover tunnel. ❋ Unknown (2010)
While neither reached 50 percent support, the poll showed a strong shift in voters 'opinions on a tunnel since a March 2007 advisory vote in which 70 percent of voters opposed a cut-and-cover tunnel beneath Alaskan Way, the blog reports .. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Is there any way Wells can jump into this conversation and stear it to the cut-and-cover tunnel? donaldee ❋ Unknown (2010)
That marks a significant pro-tunnel shift from March 2007, when the cut-and-cover tunnel was overwhelmingly opposed by Seattle voters in the up-or-down advisory vote (70 percent opposed) while the rebuild fared better (57 percent opposition). ❋ Unknown (2010)
The batshit insane lunatic Wells isn't getting his cut-and-cover. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Poor Wells thinks McGinn will build his cut-and-cover monstrosity if the deep bored tunnel is nixed. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Rather than a simple head-to-head vote among the various replacement options (which local leaders rightfully feared would show the rebuild outpolling other options), voters were given two separate ballot measures, one asking for an up-or-down vote on the rebuild, the other for an up-or-down vote on the cut-and-cover tunnel favored by then-Mayor Greg Nickels. ❋ Unknown (2010)
But Greg Nickels liked the idea too, btw, after the cut-and-cover tunnel was decvisively rejected by Seattle voters in 2007. ❋ Unknown (2010)
I love Grace Crunican and I hate the cut-and-cover. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Even when construction plans were changed to cut-and-cover, we were told the process would be as follows: a couple of blocks would be torn up, the tunnel built and the street patched up before moving onto the next segment. ❋ Unknown (2009)
At a public meeting, the corporation said its preferred alternative was to run the line in a cut-and-cover trench through the right-of-way. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The case is simple, did TransLink and the provincial government deceive merchants and business owners along Cambie St. to the scope of cut-and-cover subway construction and did the cut-and-cover construction hurt business. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The same effect is true of cut-and-cover construction where it has been found that businesses along a cut-and-cover subway line take up to 10 years to recover income lost due to the construction! ❋ Unknown (2009)
I find you posting offensive, as Cambie st. merchants have been ‘horrified’ by cut-and-cover construction. ❋ Unknown (2009)
The higher cost of this was a key to the decision to switch to cut-and-cover. ❋ Unknown (2009)
At one point, when the project was on the hot seat from Cambie merchants over the switch to cut-and-cover from deep boring, officials offered this explanation. ❋ Unknown (2009)
To add further insult onto injury, studies have found that it takes up to ten years for businesses to recover from cut-and-cover subway construction. ❋ Unknown (2009)
We must restore the City's portal to Puget Sound with a cut-and-cover tunnel. ❋ Unknown (2006)
Several sections of the train tracks under the cut-and-cover housing of the tube trench had been ripped up. ❋ Mel Odom (2008)
Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels, August 31: we have the financial means and the technical know-how to build a cut-and-cover tunnel along our waterfront. ❋ Unknown (2006)
