Envisioning an I-5 Lid in the U District
Lid I-5 hosted a charrette on September 16th dedicated to sketching out a design for a freeway lid on the stretch of Interstate 5...
Lid I-5 Awarded $48,000 Grant for Community Outreach
Lid I-5 has been awarded a $48,000 grant from the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods to further our campaign of reconnecting communities divided by Interstate...
Convention Center Acquiesces to Coalition with $83 Million Benefits Package
One of the biggest questions swirling around the new $1.6 billion expansion of the Washington State Convention center--apart from whether it will actually get...
Redesign the U District / Wallingford I-5 Scar on September 16
Have you been looking for a way to get directly involved with the Lid I-5 movement? Now is your chance!
Join us on Saturday, September...
Community Solutions for the I-5 Scar
While we are a big proponent of lidding I-5 to cut off the sights and sounds of freeway traffic (or even removing it) and...
WSCC Addition Illustrates The Difficulty Of Mitigating Freeway Trenches
At the first public benefits hearing of the Washington State Convention Center (WSCC) Addition, Seattle Design Commissioners danced around a tough truth: planning good public...
Monday’s Traffic Meltdown Showed Downtown Freeways are Brittle
Monday was quite the ordeal. Around 10am a propane truck got into a collision and rolled over blocking an interchange between I-90 and I-5 near Downtown. Propane being...
City Tells Convention Center: Addition Public Benefits Are Too Small
Yesterday both the City of Seattle and Community Package Coalition told the planners of the Washington State Convention Center (WSCC) Addition that the public benefit...