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Seattle in the Spotlight: January 12 – 18
Watch: New Time-Lapse Video Shows Lower Roadway Being Pieced Together in Seattle Tunnel
GeekWire | Kurt Schlosser | January 18
“Deep beneath Seattle, the SR 99 tunnel project continues at a pretty rapid pace. Perhaps not as rapid as it appears in a new time-lapse video released Thursday by the Washington State Department of Transportation. The video shows off the ongoing construction of the lower, northbound portion of the double-decker highway that is being built inside the tunnel whcih was carved from near the sports stadiums at the southern end of downtown Seattle to near the Space Needle at the northern end. The lower roadway is being pieced together one 22-ton panel at a time…The concrete for the upper, southbound roadway was poured in place.”
More Than Half of Seattle’s Software Developers Were Born Outside U.S.
Seattle Times | Gene Balk | January 17
“In total, about 143,000 people in the Seattle-area civilian labor force are in IT occupations — software developers, computer programmers, systems analysts and so on. And nearly 57,000 of them, or 40 percent, were born in another country, according to my analysis of the 2016 data. For software developers, in particular, the numbers are even more striking: Slightly more than half of the folks in this occupation were born abroad. Software developer is the No. 1 IT job in the Seattle area, nearly half of the total employment.”
Seattle is Country’s No. 1 ‘Hygge’ City, for Our Love of Books, Coffee and Fireplaces
Seattle Times | Christine Clarridge | January 17
“Sperling’s Best Places released its list of the the top hygge cities in the U.S. on Wednesday. The ranking factors are the number of cold or inclement days; the amount of people who enjoy hygge pastimes, such as reading books, knitting and playing board games; the availability of venues for drinking coffee, tea, beer and wine; and the percentage of homes with a fireplace. It turns out, according to Sperling, that we in Seattle are the hygge-ist of the hygge, taking home top honors with a first-place ranking.”
Shortcut to Silicon Valley? Alaska AIrlines Will Fly to 8 Cities from Everett’s Paine Field
GeekWire | Alan Boyle | January 16
“Alaska Airlines says it’ll offer daily nonstop flights to eight cities including San Jose, Calif., from Paine Field in Everett, Wash., with the aim of helping travelers circumvent traffic jams on the road in Seattle and in the terminals at Seattle-Tacoma International Airport. In addition to San Jose, the destinations served will include Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Orange County in California, Phoenix, Portland in Oregon, San Diego and San Francisco. Seattle-based Alaska estimates that the flights from Everett will provide a closer-to-home travel option for more than a million people living in the north Puget Sound region. The routes to Silicon Valley and San Francisco could be particularly attractive for techies.”
Ideas for Revamping Old Tunnel Run Through Seattle’s Blind Spot
Seattle Times | Danny Westneat | January 16
“For months now, panels of citizens and designers have been convening to imagine a possible future for Seattle’s Battery Street Tunnel. The one-third-mile tube has for decades connected the Alaskan Way Viaduct on the waterfront to Highway 99 in South Lake Union, but it’s slated to be “decommissioned” — filled with concrete rubble — when the viaduct is torn down next year. So last fall a group called “Recharge The Battery” held a design competition for how we might reuse the old tunnel instead. The group said the ideas “ranged from the feasible to the outrageous,” and one news account gushed that ‘coming up with bold ideas is the kind of thing Seattle citizens do well.'”
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