To cheer you up, give a rare commercial plug to my favorite airline, and mainly to save myself the trouble of writing another long post, I am going to refer you to a web site called The Slog, which details with only slight exaggeration the trials and tribulations of trying to drive between Portland and Seattle.
This 175-mile drive (which the Slog web page rounds up to 200 miles) has some of the heaviest traffic in the Northwest, mainly because anti-auto crusaders who dominate the transportation departments in both Oregon and Washington have done their best to delay any increases in road capacities. The Slog makes fun of this, calling it “the longest three-hour drive in history,” with Ken Burns-Civil War-style music, pan-and-scan, and narrative.
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Of course, some will be quick to point out that people could choose Amtrak as an alternative to driving or flying. Yes, you can take the Talgo “tilting” trains, if they are not out of service due to cracks in the cars somewhere. Or you can take the Seattle-Los Angeles Coast Starlight, also known as the Coast Starlate due to its record of arriving on time a grand 2 percent of the time.
If you’ve ever driven from Portland to Seattle, you will recognize the truth behind much of the humor in the Slog — the Uncle Sam billboard, the free orange-flavored drinks at the rest areas, and the huge traffic jams in places like Olympia and the Columbia River Crossings.
Anti-highway forces should be proud that an airline would highlight their efforts with this amusing web site.
Quote from New York Times today (Sept 12):
“The 33 Bombardier Q400s operated by Horizon Air, a regional carrier owned by the Alaska Air Group, make up the world’s largest fleet of the aircraft. Angela Doyle, a spokeswoman for the company, said the carrier had grounded 19 of the planes, forcing it to cancel 113 flights today.”
Randall, you are so timely with your articles! How did you know so many Horizon Air passengers would have to consider The Slog again today?
Where I live near Vancouver I have seen a lot of construction on I-5 in the last few years to widen it to three lanes from two, with new bridges, overpasses and interchanges. A new interchange is under construction now at 219 Street.
Amtrak will probably never be on time on this route unless and until there is major rail line construction in the corridor. The I-5 corridor south of the ports of Seattle and Tacoma is the heaviest freight traffic rail corridor in the state handling about 45-55% of the freight rail traffic in all of Washington, due to restrictions on east-west freight rail across the Cascades. Passenger rail will not be a serious option until freight rail capacity is addressed and restrictions to rail capacity have the side effect of putting more trucks on the highway adding to the congestion.