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The United States Interstate Highway 5 (I-5) Seneca Project was debated in 2012-2013. Most of I-5 had three or more lanes in the Seattle area; a roughly two-block bottleneck occurred in Downtown Seattle between Seneca Street and Freeway Park where it reduced to two lanes, slowing traffic through the city considerably. Adding a third lane would cost approximately $23 million according to the Washington State Department of Transportation (WSDOT). WSDOT hoped that the Puget Sound Regional Council (PSRC), a government group of elected officials, did not prioritize the project highly in 2012, however, putting other "shovel ready" projects in front of it. (See Mike Lindblom, "It will cost $23M to add third I-5 lane, State says," Seattle Times, 01/02/2013, p. B1, B4.)

PCAD id: 18222