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Seattle will always be congested due to sheer geography. It’s surrounded by water on all sides. Want to go east? You have two bridges, and neither one is particularly better for the suburbs of Bellevue and Co., since that area lies between 520 and I90. To get to West Seattle you have one bridge, or take the 2x as long drive down and around. Living out West puts you on the ferry schedule.

Seattle’s congestion is kind a crap-chute because every downtown/SLU employee is basically choked through a bridge in one way or another.

Edit: and no one wants to live south. For whatever reason. And even if you commuted south, seems like it’s about a 50% chance a semi is going to be crashed on that weird median.




Lots of people live to the south. Land in South Seattle has significant pollution problems though.


You can build more bridges. That is not "geography".


It is. The entire region is a giant landslide hazard, which makes it extremely time-consuming to build things, including the ends of bridges.




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