WSDOT gets sassy

WSDOT fired a quick round at us on their Viaduct homepage — heard some tunnel “facts”?? — but then decides not to fight this grassroots Goliath and backs down (text changes to “Hearing a lot about the proposed SR 99 bored tunnel?” sometime today).

Google cache reveals WSDOT's short-lived sass attack on TunnelFacts.com

Viaduct project most important issue in Mayoral election

The recent UW poll shows that the Alaskan Way Viaduct is the #1 issue for Seattle voters in the mayoral election — higher than jobs/economy and taxes combined!

Now that the site has been up for a week, we wanted to take a moment and fill you in on the news and where we’re hoping to take the site.

We’ve had a few good mentions in the press: Publicola, Huge Ass City, and Seattle Transit Blog, and some nice links from environmental sites WorldChanging and Sustainable Cities Collective. We’ve had nearly 1500 visitors so far this week, and with KING 5 doing a short story on us tonight, we should get many more! [Update: King5 story aired at 5:30pm! What did you think?]

We’re going to start posting tunnel updates on the main page, and linking to stories about us or about the tunnel. We’re also extending our supporters an invitation to become contributors. Just shoot us an email with details on what you’d like to write, and we’d be happy to post your message. Even if you only post once, your voice is valuable and we’d like to hear what you have to say.

Also, if you have any ideas for “Tunnel Facts”, such as the ones listed on our How Much is $4.24 Billion and Other Uses for $4.24 B pages, please send them our way and we’ll post them to our Twitter and Facebook streams. You can find examples on our Twitter page.

Finally, we received a suggestion to create a few good t-shirts with Tunnel Facts on them. We were thinking just a simple tee with “TunnelFact # 642: 9 Inches of Tunnel = 10,000 Street Trees” and the campy tunnel graphic with “TunnelFacts.com” printed on it. Let us know what you’d want to wear!

Thanks again for supporting the site, and please keep checking back for more tasty Tunnel Facts.

Derek, Elliott and Skye

The TunnelFacts Team