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WSDOT said there is no “good weekend” for disruptive closures, but the agency must take advantage of the short dry-weather construction season.
Once again the state government is showing how much more important the state government is than the residents of the state. Even the "best dry weather" is no longer for the residents.
Seems more like someone as WSDOT doesn't like protests.
I really think the big problem here is that we keep deferring maintenance and piling it into these huge projects all at once. It’s unfortunate that they need dry weather, but the work has to be done.
What’s fucking insane is that we just don’t have viable alternatives to the highway system. There’s no regular trains or metro. The bus network is sparse and slow. It seems like in countries that don’t have our congestion and construction problems they have viable alternatives to driving and so have lower infrastructure costs. Those lower costs translate to more periodic, off peak maintenance.
We absolutely should get more of the beautiful weather to ourselves and I do think that the state government and WSDOT aren’t really aligned with making that possible particularly soon 😂