Wilburton Tunnel Comes Down
WSDOT crews knocked down the Wilburton Tunnel this weekend. The tunnel is coming down as part of the I-405 South Bellevue Widening Project. With the tunnel gone, the 42-mile Eastside Rail corridor will be officially severed in two. Nevertheless, the PSRC is still moving forward with a second study on using the corridor for commuter rail.
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Dear God, let it stop. That was not a tunnel. That was a railroad bridge over a highway. I don't know when people started calling it a tunnel, but it certainly wasn't in the first ten years it existed.
I'm inclined to think the state DOT started calling it a tunnel so people who didn't know what it was would visualize some kind of improvement when they tore it down.