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Tuesday, October 25, 2011

And the walls came tumbling down: videos and photos of the Seattle Alaska Way Viaduct teardown

By Mona Goldwater, Seattle Metro Editor
Photos and video by Jack Brummet

The Alaskan Way Viaduct, which was finished in 1953, is a double-decker elevated chunk of Highway 99 that runs along the Seattle waterfront. It runs above Alaskan Way, from S. Nevada Street in the south to the Battery Street Tunnel, north of the market in the north. The viaduct was seriously damaged in our most recent major 'quake--the 2001 Nisqually earthquake--and is now being replaced by an underground tunnel. Demolition began just a few days ago. Jack stopped by and shot this video and these photos.

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