Thanks to the efforts of Seattle’s People’s Waterfront Coalition, Seattle will be

may be the next city to replace a waterfront freeway with a boulevard, following the great success of San Francisco’s Embarcadero. DC has a similar great opportunity in the Whitehurst, but community opposition is ensuring we are stuck with this eyesore. Thanks Steve from SGA for the correction.

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Tagged: boulevardize, dc, roads, seattle, whitehurst

David Alpert created Greater Greater Washington in 2008 and was its executive director until 2020. He formerly worked in tech and has lived in the Boston, San Francisco Bay, and New York metro areas in addition to Washington, DC. He lives with his wife and two children in Dupont Circle.