These will be around for as long as I'm on this earth, I'm afraid ...

Two good examples of the disintegrating bridges in the Seattle area are shown in the pictures above (the Alaskan Way Viaduct) and below (the 520 or "Evergreen" Bridge over Lake Washington).

I had the fun of driving over the Evergreen Bridge nearly every weekday for five years before I moved to Ocean Shores. Of course, it was closed a couple or three times for repairs--like when the foundation was seen to be crumbling after a November windstorm and again when cracks were seen--that are presumably still there.

The Alaskan Way Viaduct is actually becoming sort of famous for its disrepair and nothing substantive will be done to repair it in my lifetime, that's for sure.

As for the 520 bridge, well the one good thing that can be said for it is that it is better than taking I-90 into Seattle from Bellevue if your kids are all located on the northern part(s) of the city.

And it is kinda pretty from the air, isn't it? In fact, all of Seattle is pretty from the air--as long as we don't have a 6.0 or above earthquake up in these parts for another hundred years or so.