One more hat tip to Tracy and Patrick for the excellent soup-to-nuts coverage. I doubt I’ll see that change in my lifetime, but at least I can push forward broader system perspectives and tools.The “saddest and most depressing thing” is that as humans we ignored solid science for over 50 years, and when it was too late to change we moved on to self-righteous hatred and division. I do think that we can improve with how we envision future systems, though. Guy McPherson settled into “Only Love Remains”. Even then it would have taken extreme changes that were politically close to impossible. Few of us were in a position of power to heed Johnson’s 1965 Scientific report on the environment. I have to constantly remind myself that we are all in this together, and equally to blame. The issue is complicated.)I am often guilty of the division your stance/presentation encourages, Jort. (If you are going to fly the carbon emission flag, you really should dig into Ye Tao a bit. The only real mitigation to warming is Ye Tao’s work that I know of, and that is just a small part of the problem. The drastic change needed to change course is politically extremely unlikely, and will still lead to much death. Collapse is the result, and much of the social stress, in my mind, are symptoms of collapse, not moral issues with driving cars. Deep supply chains of alternatives are a fail, and the engine rolls forward regardless. I will give an extra -2 to the petroleum companies that covered up the news around CO2, though, but we all burned that oil. Both you and I, and the bike riders and the Costco shoppers participate equally. Tiny steps of kindness and feel-goods make little difference, when industrial civilization, unbridled by holistic system considerations, remains the real culprit. Frankly, whether somebody rides a bicycle or not makes little difference in the curves going up and then going down (nod to Gary Snyder’s poem For the Children). It is about population and how we choose to live. The people are are changing the biosphere to our detriment, but the planet will adapt, likely with humans in greatly diminished numbers or gone. Jort, As George Carlin so famously said, “The planet is fine. SDOT mentioned that in a tweet and said it’s related to WSDOT’s “Revive I-5” work.ġ:15 AM: One of the high bridge webcams is working now. We’ll of course be watching the traffic situation, especially on Monday morning, with live updates during that first post-reopening outbound commute.ġ1:34 PM: Commenters are noting that the southbound I-5 exit to the bridge hasn’t reopened yet. Getting back to the present, here’s the “live” 35th/Fauntleroy webcam, which we featured earlier in the hours leading up to the reopening. You might recall that SW Holden was so swamped with traffic immediately after the closure, SDOT installed a traffic signal at Highland Park Way/Holden in the span of a week – an intersection where previously residents had been requesting traffic-control help for decades.ġ0:45 PM: Speaking of looking back, if you for any reason want to browse back through our 2 1/2 years of coverage – going back to the shocking March 23, 2020, announcement that the bridge had to be closed – it’s all archived here, 300+ stories. Tail lights on SW Holden – so long, y’all! ( Update: Someone on Twitter says they were off Bainbridge.)ġ0:10 PM: The reopening means a huge sigh of relief for residents along detour routes – particularly (but not limited to) Highland Park, South Park, and Georgetown. ( Added: In the comment thread on our earlier report, “ Matt #2” says he was first across on his motorcycle.) … Many noted fireworks this past half-hour. Tim McMonigle reports his car was the first car across (see comment below) – here’s his video: Buses don’t return to the high bridge until Mondayĩ:44 PM: Thanks for the photos and videos – getting caught up once the server starts behaving again (sorry if you’ve had trouble connecting, we have increased capacity over the years but apparently not by enough). Restrictions on the low bridge are now ALL lifted More to come…ĩ:23 PM: Thanks to Laurel at Ounces (which is having a big reopening party tomorrow) for sending that video of the last barricade being removed at the Delridge entrance, and the worker declaring, “The West Seattle Bridge is open!”ĩ:30 PM: Here’s the official SDOT announcement. Cars just started heading eastbound from the 35th entrance.
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