Last year, the legislature told Gregoire and Nickels to choose an option for what to do about the crumbling viaduct by the end of 2008. Guess what tomorrow is and guess who hasn’t made up their minds. Here’s the “dog ate my homework”, asking for an extension into 2009:

“As a result of the continued overwhelming response and input on replacement options from stakeholders, we have asked our respective transportation teams to continue their review. Once this information is in hand, and working closely together, a final recommendation will be made to the state Legislature in January,” their statement said. [times]

A lot of people are clinging to high-throughput and everyone thinks elevated highways are ugly; so my guess is that they’ll hold out until someone finds a pile of money hidden under city hall to pay for a tunnel or wait for another earthquake to come around and finish the job that Nisqually started.