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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH

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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (472919)10/8/2003 1:29:37 PM
From: Orcastraiter  Read Replies (1) of 769670
 
I believe that Locke cut back on everything else, the bulk of that on transportation. This in a state that has many huge transportation needs, just in maintaining important links.

The Alaskan Way viaduct is crumbling, and is one earthquake away from being a rush hour body crusher, ala the Embarcadero freeway in Oakland.

The 520 floating bridge is suffering from cracked pontoons and leaking problems, along with post tension cable woes. One good wind storm and this important link could end up at the bottom of Lake Washington ala the Mercer Island I-90 floating bridge.

Either one of these facilities goes down the loss to the Seattle economy will pale in comparison to what it would cost to solve the problems now. Kind of like the billions of dollars that were lost when the power went out in the east. That same amount of money spent on the infrastructure would have insured that the power grid would be solid.

Orca
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