Washington: Opponents of tunnel trying to collect last signatures
Signature gatherers for anti-tunnel Initiative 101 are becoming more conspicuous, in their red shirts at grocery stores and farmers markets. Organizer Elizabeth Campbell says 5,000 people have signed. What voters might not realize is that even if the measure attracts the required 20,629 valid signatures, it likely wouldn’t appear on the Seattle ballot until May ”” months after the state Department of Transportation is to sign a construction deal in January for at least $1.1 billion, to build a four-lane Highway 99 tunnel from Sodo to South Lake Union.