Bridge collapse could cost Washington state millions, jobs

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22. The fact that so many traumas go from Bellingham and Island Hospital

to Seattle, and they go via I-5, and those ambulances will now be delayed is just an "inconvenience" to the above poster.

I just moved from Seattle after living there 13+ years. I love when people who aren't from Seattle, or who have traveled there in a cursory manner look at, say, Seattle to Bellingham and say "oh, Mapquest says they're 90 miles apart. THat's an hour and a half drive'. Haw. Yeah. Right. Hour and a half drive on Tuesday at 2am IF you're going 90. It took me an hour and a half to get from West Seattle to fucking SHORELINE on a regular basis....People have no idea how the traffic is there, how the roads are there. Coworkers that lived in Everett and worked downtown would often 2 hours to get to work in the afternoon and just as much to get home in the morning and that's REGULAR traffic. It's going to be a fucking bear now. I guess they can leave for work 3 hours early???

I used to work at the trauma center in Seattle. We got lots of transfers and dispatches from parts north. I can't imagine the time it will take now to get these critically ill and possibly fatally injured folks to Seattle.

But, don't forget, it's just an "inconvenience"

And then the fact that this is a holiday weekend, the start of summer...oh boy. Getting back to the States through Peace Arch on a Sunday or holiday Monday is a "pack a lunch and take a nap" affair anyways...last time we came home on a Sunday (in November, mind you), it was 2.5 hours to get through. Now it's a holiday, 3 day weekend, start of summer? Might as well buy some property in Surrey and just live there because that traffic is *never* going to move. Think getting on a ferry for a weekend in the San Juans was in your future? Leave a day early and come back a day late. God, I can't even imagine what a parking lot turned into a parking lot is going to look like