The Tunnel Is Worse Than We Thought

Two new reasons to hate the Seattle waterfront tunnel that's replacing the viaduct.by Lester BlackFormer Seattle mayor Greg Nickels liked to invoke Ronald Reagan when describing the Alaskan Way Viaduct. "Tear down this wall!" he would say at press conferences, referencing the raised highway's wall-like qualities that cut downtown off from the waterfront.Nickels, along with a bunch of other Democrats, wanted to bury Highway 99 in a tunnel in order to "reconnect our city to the water," in his word