What We Learned at Yesterday's City vs. State Fight Over Bertha's Rescue Pit

Sydney BrownstoneClose-up on the rescue pit of despair. The yellow bit is the part workers were stabilizing.
Pit bad? No, pit good.
That about sums up much of the two-hour Washington State Department of Transportation briefing in front of the city council yesterday, in which council members peppered the state with questions about a strongly-worded letter the Seattle Department of Transportation and Seattle Public Utilities fired off last week. In it, city officials expressed a