The Alaskan Way Viaduct Stakeholder Advisory Committee should not only consider replacing the Viaduct but also repairing it. Why are Washington State Department of Transportation and the city stonewalling the idea of strengthening the structure to resist future earthquake forces as proposed by Vic Gray and other structural engineers? Strengthening the Viaduct is a reasonable solution and certainly involves less cost and less traffic congestion than replacing it.

Bill Ward

West Seattle