They tore up the Alaskan expressway, a major highway that cut through the heart of the city and right by the neighborhood I'm at right now in my friend's place, but Seattle is still disappointingly pocked by large, loud, dangerous highways crisscrossing the city.
Particularly towards the Southern part of the City, there's an absurd number of highways and interchanges and overheads and underpasses. Overhead bridges that'll go on for miles. Giant wastelands that have nothing but concrete and highways. And no people living there because who wants to live in that hot loud dangerous boring hole. Highways inside cities kill civic life, they're like surgical life across the heart of communities.
It feels as if at some point in the perhaps now distant past, some government agency had too much money to throw around and didn't know what to do, and somebody said, heyy why don't we build more roads, expensive roads, everywhere because that looks advanced and futuristic and that's the sort of place we want to be, and everybody agreed, and so unused or uncared, they went into a crazy frenzy of nonstop road construction.
Those neighborhoods are apparently also the most crime-ridden and the least valuable.
They're disgusting. I hope much like the destruction of the previously-mentioned highway, the folks in power come to their senses, and decide to prioritize people instead of chunks of concrete and steel, and tear those structures down and create livable, breathable, family-friendly neighborhoods out of those places.
Or if not, at least overhead parks. That'd be quite sick as well truth be told.
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