People's Waterfront Coalition

The Citizens' Alternative to Rebuilding Seattle's Viaduct

THE VISION

THE STRATEGY

While this larger vision is ambitious and inclusive, the specific actions which lead to it are discrete. This decentralized approach allows multiple diverse actors to implement specific projects according to their own objectives, while collectively achieving a larger public good.

THE SEQUENCE

YEAR ACTIVITY
0 to 3 Build the Desire, Shift the Decision
2 to 4 Get the Funding, Move the Traffic, Tear Down the Viaduct
3 to 7 Build the Seawall and Surface
7 to 10 Lay in Networks
8 to 15 Develop Priority Sites
15 to 30 Develop Secondary Sites
30 + Catalyze, Adapt, Protect

ACTORS + AGENTS

Reviving the central waterfront will take an effort by all of us: businesses, public officials, nonprofit agencies, community associations, media, transportation providers, freight movers, and the city, state and federal governments. Most essential, though, is the participation of the private citizen, for with an informed and energized citizenry, it is the will of the public that will be done.