Maintaining Important Freight Connections to Ballard/Interbay Viaduct and Seawall Replacement Program / Central Waterfront Maintaining important freight connections to Ballard/Interbay Keeping ’s Neighborhoods Moving Northwest Seattle The bored tunnel and related system NW MARKET ST improvements will maintain all freight Ballard WESTLAKE AVE Ballard, Magnolia, Interbay, Queen Anne connections to Ballard and Interbay LEARY WAY NW WALL ST BATTERY ST BELL ST areas. Both the tunnel and surface N 46TH ST BLANCHARD ST ELLIOTT AVE 2ND AVE Alaskan Way boulevard routes will Battery St. Tunnel Closed 1ST AVE LENORA ST Fremont work well for freight. WESTERN AVE VIRGINIA ST EMERSON ST Victor N 39TH ST Steinbrueck Park The bored tunnel will have full access ALASKAN WAY STEWART ST PINE ST at the south tunnel portal near the PIKE PL 2.09 NIC stadiums and at the north portal near K PIKE ST ER Bridge over DRAVUS ST SO . Routes connecting N railroad tracks S T UNION ST ALASKAN WAY to the tunnel will be designed New Elliott / Western to to accommodate freight turning Alaskan Way Connector Magnolia (4 lanes) UNIVERSITY Access to Northwest Seattle

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DEXTERAVE be an efficient bypass to the stadiums, southwest Seattle and Sea-Tac airport. The improved Alaskan Way boulevard MERCER ST will be designed for efficient traffic Alaskan Way / Elliott Route With a new connection over the railroad Seattle • Getting downtown and beyond: flow, including timed signals, a new Bored Tunnel Route Center tracks, Elliott Avenue will flow directly to the new Alaskan Way boulevard, overpass over the BNSF rail tracks I-5 / Mercer Route Uptown Two-way Mercer St providing an efficient route through downtown and more options to get into the and reduced conflicts between Hazardous/flammable materials WESTERN AVE 2ND AVE downtown street grid. are not allowed in bored tunnel pedestrians and truck traffic. Grades and must use Alaskan Way on the new section of street between route or I-5 • Two-way Mercer Street: This two-way corridor from Elliott Avenue to I-5 will Alaskan Way and Elliott/Western Bored Tunnel give Northwest Seattle access to and from the tunnel and I-5. New street connecting waterfront to ALASKAN WAY PIKE ST will be about six percent. Hazardous Elliott/Western with grade separation freight will use either I-5 or the over the railroad (SEE INSET) • New transit options: New RapidRide service for Ballard/Uptown and the 5 Aurora Corridor will provide fast frequent service to downtown with easy Alaskan Way route, and oversize New 4-lane boulevard trucks will continue to use the along Central Waterfront connections to the new regional light rail system. Alaskan Way route. New 6-lane boulevard from Columbia to King The agreement by the Governor, King County Executive and Seattle Mayor to JACKSON ST replace the viaduct with the bored tunnel was made after significant technical Ramp access to / from SR99 at Royal Brougham analysis and input from the Stakeholder Advisory Committee, business and 99 community groups and many residents who participated in the public process. Travel Times for Freight 0 0.5 1 519 Miles Together, new driving routes and better transit will ensure that people and goods 90 While travel times along the Alaskan move quickly and efficiently. Way boulevard may be slightly longer than existing travel via the viaduct, the improvements remove Americans with Disabilities Act & Title VI information a current peak period bottleneck at the entrance to the viaduct at Elliott Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) Information: Materials can be by creating two continuous through provided in alternative formats: large print, Braille, cassette tape, or on lanes along the corridor. Overall computer disk for people with disabilities by contacting Heather Santic at 206-267-3789 / [email protected]. Persons who are deaf or travel times to Ballard/Interbay hard of hearing may make a request for alternative formats through the using the surface Alaskan Way Washington Relay Service at 7-1-1. boulevard route or the bored tunnel/ Mercer Corridor route are expected Title VI: WSDOT ensures full compliance with Title VI of the Civil Rights to be within two or three minutes of Act of 1964 by prohibiting discrimination against any person on the basis of existing travel times. race, color, national origin or sex in the provision of benefits and services resulting from its federally assisted programs and activities. For questions regarding WSDOT’s Title VI Program, you may contact the Department’s Title VI Coordinator at 360-705-7098. How Northwest Seattle Will Access the New Bored Tunnel How NW Seattle Will Get To and ThroughHow Northwest Downtown Seattle Using will the get Newto and Alaskan through Way How Northwest Seattle will access the Bored Tunnel downtown using the new Alaskan Way Many who now use Elliott Avenue to Travelers from neighborhoods NW MARKET ST NW MARKET ST Ballard get onto the Alaskan Way Viaduct in Ballard in Northwest Seattle will be able the Belltown area will find it convenient WALL ST LEARY WAY NW to use the bored tunnel to travel BATTERY ST to use the new Alaskan Way boulevard LEARY WAY NW N 46TH ST BELL ST BLANCHARD ST through downtown Seattle to get 2ND AVE N 46TH ST along the waterfront to travel through Battery St. Tunnel Closed LENORA ST to multiple destinations, including ELLIOTT AVE 1ST AVE Fremont 5 downtown. The new street will be very Fremont VIRGINIA ST the Duwamish industrial area, West WESTERN AVE Victor EMERSON ST different from Alaskan Way today. EMERSON ST N 39TH ST Steinbrueck Seattle, and the airport. Access There will be a new connection linking N 39TH ST Park ALASKAN WAY STEWART ST to the tunnel will be from Aurora Elliott/Western to Alaskan Way with a PINE ST Avenue N. which will transition NI PIKE PL NI bridge over the railroad tracks. Signals CK CK E New bridge over E R from a surface highway to the R SO DRAVUS ST S DRAVUS ST N railroad tracks O will be timed to move traffic efficiently N ST PIKE ST bored tunnel between Mercer S T and manage pedestrian crossings. ALASKAN WAY Street and Denny Way, replacing New Elliott / Western to Alaskan Way will have two-lanes in each Alaskan Way Connector UNION ST the current route via the Battery (4 lanes)

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DEXTER AVE People who travel into downtown from DEXTERAVE MERCER ST 5 MERCER ST Northwest Seattle will have new options Travel Times Seattle in addition to existing routes. The new New Two-way Mercer St with Bored Tunnel Center New Two-way Mercer St surface street connection from Elliott Uptown Uptown Avenue to Alaskan Way will provide a DENNY WAY DENNY WAY Route To/Through Downtown • Travel times for those who use the WESTERN AVE 2ND AVE Aurora/viaduct route today will WESTERN2ND AVE new option for access to the waterfront DowntownElliott Bay Access 5TH AVE 5TH AVE improve with the bored tunnel by 1 to and to the center of downtown that B o New street connecting waterfront to r is not provided today. Transit service e 2 minutes during peak periods. Elliott/Western with grade separation d Bored Tunnel to downtown will be greatly improved over the railroad SEE INSET T PIKE ST Mercer / Elliott Route PIKE ST ALASKANu WAY n 5 • For those who now access the viaduct ALASKAN WAY n Aurora Avenue North Routes with new RapidRide transit service e New 4-lane boulevard l at the Elliott and Western Avenue Westlake and Dexter Routes from Ballard/Uptown and on Aurora SPRING ST New Downtown along Central Waterfront MARION ST access via ramps, rerouting onto east-west streets 5 Avenue. More frequent service will make Alaskan Way

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02/11/2009 02/11/2009 Travel Times Using the New Alaskan Way Overall travel times for trips traveling through downtown on the new surface Alaskan Way boulevard route would increase by two The new two-way Mercer Corridor provides options for or three minutes over today’s travel time using the viaduct. Travel access to Northwest Seattle with full access to and from the New Two-way Mercer Corridor would be more predictable and reliable than using either Alaskan SR 99 bored tunnel. Lake Union Way or the viaduct today. Back-ups due to the at-grade railroad Broad Street eliminated crossing to get to Alaskan Way would be eliminated. Today’s long VALLEY ST Access to/from SR 99 east of Fifth Ave N at Mercer Corridor ELLIOTT AVE FAIRVIEW AVE N peak period back-ups on Elliott Avenue to the viaduct on-ramp 5TH AVE N 5TH AVE 1 VALLEY ST 5 W MERCER PL ROY ST VALLEY ST 1 1 N DEXTER AVE would disappear with the new street improvements. 1 N AVE AURORA ROY ST 1 1 1 1 1 2 2 3 3 3 MERCER ST MERCER ST MERCER ST MERCER ST Two-way Mercer Street 1 2 2 3 3 3 For additional Visit: www.alaskanwayviaduct.org Other Street Improvements 5 X Through Lanes New Sixth Ave Connection Three new connections across project info: E-mail: [email protected] WESTLAKE AVE N AVE WESTLAKE (Turn Lanes Not Shown) SEATTLE CENTER Mercer to Harrison Aurora between Mercer and Denny N AVE FAIRVIEW Not to Scale 6TH AVE N 6TH AVE 5TH AVE W 5TH AVE W 2ND AVE N QUEEN ANNE AVE 02/12/2009 N 1ST AVE Conceptual Design, Turn Lanes not Shown Call: 1-888-AWV-LINE