Impacts

Big Dig Tunnel

Rebuild

Surface

VPG Retrofit

Estimated Cost of “Core” Projects

(including $350 Million “core” Seawall)

$4.63 Billion

$2.82 Billion

$1.5 Billion

$1.2 Billion

Deficit beyond committed $2.4 Bil.

(Wash. St. Gas Tax + Federal dollars)

$2.23 Billion Deficit

(Taxes, Tolls?)

$0.42 Billion Deficit

$900 Million

surplus to build surface roads for 40,000 cars/buses now banished from SR99?   Ha!

$1.2 Billion SURPLUS available for SR520, Magnolia Br., Spokane St. Viaduct, etc.

Yet Unfunded “Non-core” future Phase

(Seawall north of Pike St., Aurora Ave. ditching)

$700 Million

$700 Million

$700 Million

$700 Million

Duration of 100% Construction Closure of SR99

3.5 Years

3.5 Years

8 Years

None

I-5 Congestion due to 100% SR99 Closure

“14 hours/day”

(WSDoT 2005)

14 hours/day

14 hours/day

None

(WSDoT estimates current congestion = 5 hrs/day )

Partial Construction Closure of SR99

11 years

12 years

8 Years

Minimal

(more-disruptive WSDoT “retrofit”= 8 yrs)

Loss of Capacity Post-Construction

Columbia/Seneca Ramps

(45,000 cars/500 buses/day)

None

Everything + 2 lanes of Battery St. Tunnel

None

Construction Impacts on all Transportation Modes (Trucks,Rails,Ferry,Transit)

(2004 Draft EIS, Appdx. C)

“Severe”

“Very Severe”

“Very Severe”

Negligible

Bus Capacity Lost Post-Construction

500/day loss

(redirected through Pioneer Sq. Hist. District)

None

500/day loss

(redirected through Pioneer Sq. Hist. District)

None

Public Utilities Relocation Cost

Unfunded or to assigned by fiat to residential and business utility bills

$500 Million

(“City officials,” DJC 5/24/05)

$500 Million

(ERP 9/06)

$500 Million

$50 Million (reference

more-disruptive WSDoT 1996 Retrofit = $94 Million)

Alaskan Way Viaduct Demolition Cost

$24 Million

(WSDoT 1996)

$24 Million

$24 Million

None

Pounds of Concrete Rubble to Landfill

(Embodied Energy of Rubble)

44,000,000 lbs

(22,000 Barrels Iraqi Crude)

44,000,000 lbs

(22,000 Barrels Iraqi Crude)

44,000,000 lbs

(22,000 Barrels Iraqi Crude)

None

Port of Seattle Taxpayer Contribution

Essential

None

None

None

Waterfront Business Disruption

during Construction

Severe

Severe

Severe

Negligible

(temp. parking level closure)

Waterfront Business Disruption

Post-Construction

Some (from poor center city access)

None

Yes

None

Toll

Essential

Likely

Forces Congestion Tolling of I-5

No Tolls!