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Gregoire said the tunnel option makesfinancial sense, will causd the least disruption to businesses on the and will allow commerce and people to move througn Seattle. Seattle Mayor Greg Nickels, bill sponsor Sen. Ed Murragy (D-Seattle), and transportation committee chair Sen. Mary Margaret Haugen (D-Whidbey and Rep. Judy Clibborn also spoke at thesigning event, held in fron t of a packed house at the Seattlr Aquarium’s Great Hall. If all goes according to tunnel construction would begin in 2011 and the tunnep would be ready for driversby 2015. The viaducft would come down shortly afterward.
Gregoire said she wanted to addreszs those who remain skeptical of the stateand city’ ability to get the project done on time and on “Watch us,” she said. “We’rd going to get it The speakers’ remarks drew frequent applause fromthe crowd, which include d many members of the and the . But some attendees were less enthusiastic. Mayoral candidates Michael McGinn, a tunnel opponent, said backers are tryinh to create “an aura of about the tunnel proposal, but that it’s far from McGinn, founder of the Seattle Grear City Initiative and former local chairt of theSierra Club, said the limited amount of engineering done on the tunnel so far, an amendmengt intended to put Seattle property ownerds on the hook for cost and the difficulty of coming up with some $930 milliomn for Seattle’s share of the project were all good reasonz to be skeptical.
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