Threatened Olmsted Legacy
by Cheryl dos Remedios and Eliza Davidson from the Washington Park Arboretum. SR-520 freeway construction is once again threatening one of Seattle 's most culturally important landscapes: the Washington Park Arboretum. To bring a new bridge up to code, and to accommodate new bike lanes, a new 4-lane bridge would take up twice as much space as it does today.The 6-lane option will by 4 times wider.Neither option has an appreciable affect on commute times. The cheapest option for the bridge is $2 billion short of money. That is more than the entire cost of the ill-fated monorail project that was cancelled by Seattle voters in Nov, 2005.

Grass Routes Guide
This "grass routes guide" on SR520 issues wascreated by Cheryl dos Remedios, a local artist who is a board member of the Arboretum Foundation.

League of Women Voters - Seattle Chapter
Click They Represent You for an excellent directory of our region's elected officials and their contact information, compiled yearly by the Seattle chapter of the League of Women Voters.

Washington State Dept of Transportation 520 Web Site
The Washington State Department of Transportation's web site about State route 520. The Project Library includes the draft environmental impact statement, as well as briefing materials prepared for meetings of the Executive Committee. Another useful part of the site is the section on the Governor's Expert Review Panel,, which found that WSDOT's cost estimates were overly optimistic.

Washington State Legislative Web Site
The Washington State Legislature's web site. A great way to find proposed bills,and to view existing laws. Has a directory of legislators. The section on committees allows you to view archived videos of committee meetings

U.S. Dept of Transportation - National Transportation Library
The U.S. Department of Transportation's National Transportation Library has on its web site. Rethinking HOV: High Occupancy Vehicles and the Public Interest,a national study conducted for the Chesapeake Bay Foundation that shows how constructing new HOV lanes often ends up encouraging single occupancy vehicle driving rather than buses and car pools.

Washington Coalition for Open Government
The web site of this statewide public interest group has information on the obligations of elected officials to do the public's business in open meetings, and advice on how you can obtain public records unless a law specifically exempts them from disclosure.

Photos of SR520
This web site hosted by one of the founders of No Expansion of SR520 Citizens Coalition has photos of different parts of SR520, compared to photo portrayals of various alternatives.

Seattle Weekly
This article by Brian Miller summarizes the evidence that Foster Island--in the direct pathway of SR520 expansion--was a Native American burial ground. Failure to respect a similar Native American cultural site in Port Angeles that was being disrupted for construction of the Hood Canal Bridge pontoons forced WSDOT into a costly and relocation.

Seattle Channel
This video documentary by the City of Seattle's municipal TV station is about the August 2006 Grass Routes environmental arts festival, which included art installations, art performances, music and dance performances along the northern Arboretum trail.

DYWIDAG-Systems - Bridge Construction Projects Worldwide
This is the site for DYWIDAG-Systems International, a worldwide operating construction technology group headquartered in Munich, Germany. This site showcases their bridge construction projects worldwide.