They could have put a nice 4 lane freeway though there instead.
Adjacent 15th Avenue would be the one to upgrade, not 14th. It crosses the river, and it already has interchanges.
Even better, do both and have a 6 lane freeway with Texas U turn frontage roads.
15th was originally planned and partially built as a freeway (notice the interchanges south of the ship canal), but it was shot down alongside most other Seattle freeways in the 1970s.
There is not enough traffic in the area to warrant any free flow roadways.
Let me get this straight. It was needed as a freeway 50 years ago, was shot down by CAVE people, and despite the vast increase in both population and traffic in Seattle since then there is not enough traffic to warrant it? Sounds like double think to me.
Seattle desperately needs more freeways, I say build it now!