Carolyn Adolph
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Stories
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Should downtown residents have to shell out for a new park and views?
When Highway 99 becomes a tunnel and the Viaduct comes down next year, Seattle starts work on the waterfront of its dreams . There’ll be a bike corridor...
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The risks of tunnel tolling, congestion pricing and I-5
Kim Malcolm talks with reporter Carolyn Adolph about the risks faced by the state of Washington as it considers tolling the Highway 99 Tunnel.
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What would you want in a Highway 99 toll? (Besides no toll at all)
Drivers will have a free ride on the state Route 99 tunnel in Seattle when it first opens this fall. After a few months, however, expect to pay a toll...
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Why Highway 99 got pulled from our seismic lifeline — despite the new tunnel
Soon, state Route 99 — and the rest of us —will have a new asset: a completed Alaskan Way tunnel. The $3.2 billion tunnel provides an earthquake-safe...
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5 reasons a tunnel is safer than the Alaskan Way Viaduct
The Seattle region has been growing so fast, there are now 400,000 more people here than in 2009, when we agreed to replace the Alaskan Way Viaduct with...
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The state is repaving Aurora. That's a chance to build sidewalks. But no
This summer the state highway department plans to show Aurora Avenue North some love – in the form of fresh paving .
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PHOTOS: Sneak peek at Seattle's new mega tunnel
Seattle's SR 99 tunnel will have cellular phone service, sprinklers in case of fire and a pedestrian escape route.
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The kids are SHOUTING: 'This is just the start'
It was a great awakening – thousands of people, many of them teens and preteens, marched through Seattle on Saturday morning. They joined tens of...
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Students march on Seattle: 'Power of the people stronger than people in power'
We are at the 'March for Our Lives' in Seattle this morning, where 50,000 students and their families are expected to rally. We will update this post as...
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Real talk from your Seattle friends about hosting Amazon
We recently hosted a debate to answer a simple question: Is Amazon good for Seattle? And the answer is: We don’t really know for certain. But the debate...