http://tags.library.upenn.edu/tag/nytimes+highway PennTags Feed http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/11211 http://tags.library.upenn.edu/makerecord/url/11211 <em>October 25, 2006<br />Urban Outlook<br />A City&rsquo;s Waterfront: A Place for People or Traffic?<br />By KEITH SCHNEIDER<br /><br />SEATTLE.&nbsp; ThE din along this city&rsquo;s waterfront does not come only from the procession of cars and trucks on the Alaskan Way Viaduct, an elevated highway over Elliott Bay that carries more than 105,000 vehicles a day. It also comes from the tumultuous civic dispute over a multibillion-dollar repair project involving the highway and the shoreline.<br /><br />In February 2001, Seattle was struck by the 6.8-magnitude Nisqually earthquake, which severely damaged the 53-year-old viaduct and the seawall holding it up. </em><br />