Written by We ARE trying to fix some of the traffic problems in town, but it will be a little painful this summer :-(.
We are replacing FOUR railroad trestles within a few months, and three of them span roads which will need to be closed temporarily.
This will ultimately allow us to widen Rainier Ave, Hardie Avenue, and Shatuck Ave, which will give us more North-South lane capacity through our city…yay!
This will also allow us to fully update these rail crossings while we still have the East Side Line to carry freight to Renton’s airplane factory, such that the city will have new crossings in place when the rail line through Renton becomes the only rail access to the Renton Boeing plant.
The Shattuck rail underpass (just east of Rainier Ave) will change from a one lane “cow-tunnel” to a two lane road, but it will still only have an 8 foot clearance…if you have not see this tunnel near the downtown Radioshack you may want to see it before it closes down…I understand it was originally designed to let cattle pass under the railroad track, but now it allows one car at a time to go under the track as long as the cars are not taller than about 6 feet….the top timbers of the tunnel are lacerated by cars that were just a little too tall but never-the-less driven into the tunnel!
Here is today’s Seattle Times Story on this forthcoming traffic maze:
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