Recently, we received a heads-up from Sarah Schacht about a proposed neighborhood art installation, described by her as a “web 2.0 art project.” The site of the proposed project is an I-5 support wall on 8th Ave NE, between NE 66th St and NE 68th St. Sarah writes: Despite some greenery nicely maintained by WSDOT [...]

Earlier this year, we brought you this story about Green Lake’s four bomb shelters.  The biggest, under I-5 at Weedin Place NE, has gotten some attention in the press lately. In April, “Mossback” Knute Berger wrote an excellent piece about the I-5 bomb shelter on Crosscut.com, and last night (May 11, 2010) KOMO aired this [...]

Check out this little factoid making its way around Twitter right now: The southbound stretch of I-5 at 45th Street (Exit 169) is, according to the number crunchers at The Daily Beast, America’s 7th worst commute. #7, I-5, Seattle Weekly hours of bottleneck congestion: 256 Worst bottleneck: Southbound, 45th St/Exit 169 Length of worst bottleneck: [...]

Did you know that Green Lake houses at least three old fallout shelters? Yep. Fallout Shelter #1 – The Big One I first saw mention of this fallout shelter while perusing the Green Lake Archives: 200-person fallout shelter to be ready by November 1 By Trudy Weckworth, North Central Outlook September 13, 1962 A large [...]

Noise from from the grinding work on I-5 getting you down?  Our friends over at seattlepi.com have an update for ya: Getting There: When will I-5 project in North Seattle be complete? By SCOTT GUTIERREZ SEATTLEPI.COM STAFF Question: Misty Willits asks when the DOT is planning to complete the repaving project on Interstate 5 north [...]