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Article: Bumper to Bumper; Q&A; Mercer Mess getting messier?; Stop and go at I-5 exit.(NWMonday)
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- The Seattle Times (Seattle, WA)
- Article date:
- November 9, 2009
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Byline: Charles E. Brown; Seattle Times staff reporter
Q: Is there any hope for the Mercer Mess? Queen Anne resident Roger Morse says all the area construction, all the mismatched and mistimed and out-of-sync traffic signals, and all the disrepair, not to mention the new South Lake Union Streetcar, are making the Mercer corridor gridlock even messier.
One weekday evening not long ago, he says, it took him six minutes to travel a half-mile on Interstate 5, north from the state convention center in downtown Seattle to the freeway's Mercer-Fairview exit.
Then, it took him nine minutes to get from the freeway exit to Westlake Avenue North.
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