Seattle Spends Weekend Embarrassingly Sentimentalizing the Viaduct

by Charles MudedeCapitol Hill electric trolley, circa 1903 Municipal Archives
This weekend, local blogs, broadcasts, news websites, and social media accounts were clogged with sentimental words and images for an urban tragedy called the Alaskan Way Viaduct. People were walking on it, taking selfies on it, driving for the last time on it. The madness did not end. How can a person, a real city person, have such feelings for an elevated freeway in the city's core? The man or woman of the streets sh