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Posted by Sherman in Idaho [72.47.153.24] on Friday, July 27, 2012 at 20:14:28 :
In Reply to: bureaucracy posted by Jerry in Idaho [69.59.83.175] on Friday, July 27, 2012 at 19:49:01 :
Good story. At least by the time they finally got the highway built, people were still driving cars. Here in Wallace, they got the elevated bypass (Wallace had the last stop light on I-90, coast-to-coast) built over top of the railroad tracks just about the same time the railroad pulled out and abandoned the tracks. In the early days in Seattle, they did a huge project to convert Union Bay into a sheltered fresh-water harbor, connecting it to Lake Washington via a canal, building locks between the lake and the Sound, and diverting an extra river into the lake to provide enough water for the locks. All of this was because Elliot Bay itself was considered too exposed for safe moorage of the sailing ships. By the time they got it done, most cargo ships were too big to go through the locks and were just fine in Elliot bay. Another one in Seattle was the Denny Regrade. The powers that be decided Seattle would have a tough time being a commercial hub because it was nothing but hills and it was too hard for the horses to pull the wagons up all those hills. So they flattened Denny Hill, mostly by hydraulicking it into the bay, which then had to be dredged out. By the time they got Denny Hill flattened, the wagons had been replaced with trucks that had no problem going up the hills.
Speaking of Dodges, anybody here own the blue and white pilot house Dodge with Washington plates that I've seen driving around Wallace today? Looks like a well-preserved survivor, not anything "restored".