Seattle Math

OK, let's say they're doing an extreme repave at 4th & Stewart (Belltown's southern border with downtown). The effort looks a little like this:

For the sake of getting it done, the city closes 4th at Pine Street, which looks like this:

And when you add those two things together, what do you get? This:

That's right, chaos. I'd say the backup goes almost all the way back to Chinatown. But don't worry, it'll be done by the weekend. It kind of has to be...