logan link

[rmd]

there is a great disturbance in the force -- the east coast end of interstate 90 has moved east to logan airport. both ends of I-90 no longer end close to the appropriate cities' chinatown/I-district neighborhoods.

i drove the logan link this morning -- it goes from what had been the end of route 90 to underground to the end of the ted williams tunnel and from there into logan.

on the way back out from logan, there was a speed trap in the logan-link-not-ted-williams-tunnel part. "inside a tunnel" is high up on the list of places where i don't expect to see a speed trap. but i guess they're working to discourage that "hey! it's a big wide road! let's floor it!" impulse in what's quite reasonably a 45 zone.

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[maarten.livejournal.com]

Did they extend I-90 to West Seattle while I wasn't watching? :)

[wrog]

actually, it is sortof interesting that when you get on I-90 at the KingdomeSafeco Field, the mile markers start at 2.

Either they're allowing slack because that was the last stretch of 90 to be built and they probably had to put up all of the other 390-some-odd mile markers years earlier and didn't want to change them all when/if the downtown-Seattle/Mercer-Island alignment got moved...

... or they really did originally intend 90 to run a bit farther. You can see places along WA99 where there are ramplets leading to nowhere. Or maybe they were planning a bridge across the Sound or something (hm. I think Bainbridge Island is more than two miles, though...).

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[maarten.livejournal.com]

Two miles due west from 4th Ave S. puts you smack in the middle of Elliott Bay... not even to Salty's.

Of course, you never know when the crazy Dutch people are going to move in and start "re"claiming Elliott Bay...