Project connecting Pioneer Square to Seattle waterfront breaks ground
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- Опубліковано 25 сер 2024
- Seattle Mayor Bruce Harrell helped break ground on a new project in Pioneer Square Wednesday, which is set to reconnect the city's oldest neighborhood with the new Seattle waterfront.
"With the removal of the Alaskan Way Viaduct, our community was reconnected to the water,” said Lisa Howard, the executive director of the Alliance for Pioneer Square. “This year we'll be able to see this project come to life, ensuring a direct connection of Pioneer Square as a waterfront community."
The project will improve four streets connecting Pioneer Square to the waterfront as part of Seattle's Downtown Activation Plan.
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it's only three blocks, but it's three blocks with LOTS of homeless and lots of crime. I sure wouldn't walk there at night.
Back in the 90's Pioneer Square was the center of Seattle nightlife, now it's blighted.
The social problems can be fixed more quickly than a major pour of 4 lane reinforced concrete for single occupancy drivers to agitate themselves over the slowness of others including pedestrians.
@@wjksea well that just aint true at all. In my 33 years in Seattle the concrete down there has certainly changed for the better, but the 'social problems' have gotten dramatically worse.
Go back and look at artist conceptions of Alaskan Way from before the viaduct was torn down... does the current day picture match? Nope, there were no tents in those artist conceptions.
@@doncornelius6447how can the irrational rationalize with anyone including democrats? If Dino Rossi had come to be it truly would have been worse with 40 story high rises packed along the water front. If the predecessors of Dino had had it their way, there would be no world renowned Pike Place market.
@@Rashnak66It would seem it’s time you actually visit the water front. No tents present and if one were to appear, it would not be for long. The 4 lane speed way and often parking lot is an eyesore in the context of a wanna be green waterfront but still an improvement over the viaduct.
@doncornelius6447 no sense I'm trying to listing to someone that sound mental (you)
"reconnected"....you sure about that? you built a massive 4 lane stroad between the boardwalk and the last building that is so wide you have to cross it in two sections. It is the meme joke of replace a highway you could walk under with an uglier highway you need to run across or get run over. total fail
I agree, it was very disappointing to see this broad 4 lane stroad take shape then fill with pressured drivers pissed by the congestion and the occasional high horse power 4WD pick up or Americana sports car cranking out decibels with one grandstander behind the wheel. A tunnel was built but unfortunately it wasn’t big enough to replace the capacity of the viaduct. People largely appear to just be passing through hurriedly as they did with the viaduct.
@@doncornelius6447hmm, having another drink?
I don’t drink? Do you? Are you aware excessive intoxication renders a person to one liners and an inability to process reality around them?
HOW ABOUT HOUSING THE HOMELESS??? This is a proven way of reducing crime, cleaning up urban areas, and saving money. Studies prove this over and over.
I have been commuting through there for years and currently work in the vicinity.
The working crews they are showing is right outside my work window.
I am concerned that they are not going to fix the sidewalks. A lot of sidewalks down here are not accessible for people in wheelchairs.
I hope all this work improves accessibility.
I'm glad to see this project has officially taken flight.
For years before I ever thought I would live in Seattle I worked in tourism management and would often come up from San Francisco to Seattle for meetings regarding possible conventions, large campaigns for tourism etc. Seattle has always been a hard sell.
When I moved here a few years ago I was surprised to hear people had love for the viaduct because that was an eyesore, it cut off the water from the city meaning that hotels and restaurants could not enjoy what makes Seattle beautiful.
Unfortunately they still have the issue of all the soup kitchen type type organizations that take up first and second street. Until the encampment tents and transients who hang out in the small parks in this district are cleared out tourism is still a hard sell, businesses do not care to move to this district, and just like the fire in Pioneer Square last week where transients were starting a fire to keep warm and an art gallery was consumed by fire... will be a long and tedious process.
First make pioneer square safe, then the foot traffic you want to see will come. Nobody will go somewhere they rightfully deem unsafe
Unfortunately in the viaducts place is a 4 lane stroad with hurried, pressured commuters making it much less pleasant for foot traffic.
You mean the tunnel 🤔
@@baw6282 no, the tunnel apparently wasn’t built to a capacity to handle what the via duct did or the tunnel is under utilized because it’s too easy to not pay, stay above ground and head down surface streets like Alaskan way which would be better known as waterfront stroad or waterfront I-5 park divider and calming quiet eliminator.
@@wjksea Gotcha!
@@wjksea I get it now!
Does that guy not watch the news? The Seattle your becoming is giving Detroit and Chicago a run for who is the most crime infested...
lmao
seattles a boring sleepy city
No its not lol, u clearly need to visit those cities for urself
@@jasonohara5968 i use to live in chicago. seattles a sleepy little town compared to chicago. washingtonians are mostly bumpkins who-act like seattles a big city. it is not.
@@betetete6072 well no duh, Chicago's bigger by population.
@@jasonohara5968 ok whats the issue
Could use more than a new sidewalk and plants to make the area safe and keep businesses.
Why is everyone so pessimistic about everything? What are you getting out of this?
at :22 it's the same picture for before and after!
Easier for the homeless to have waterfront views.
I really do miss the old Waterfront Streetcar ("George Benson Streetcar"). That was such simple fun. It looked great. Its air whistle added to the texture of the waterfront. It was built for about a buck and a quarter. The new Seattle was just too good for something so simple.
And this video by the mayor is just political grandstanding, using women as a backdrop to signal "equity," which is utterly meaningless because men have families too, and men need jobs too to support their daughters. Ask me how I know.
First.