1 rich Libsyn https://www.libsyn.com 90 600 Stuck in Seattle or Stuck in Sherman Oaks. There are so many places to get stuck these days and so many clowns and jokers making it worse.&amp;nbsp; First, poor Bertha, stuck 100 feet under Seattle. All the tunnel boring machine wanted to do was drill a 1.7-mile tunnel for a highway that won't even access downtown and is projected to cause more congestion at a higher price than a parallel surface/transit option -- and it got stuck just 1,000 feet in. Last December. Now the rescue plan is making downtown sink.&amp;nbsp;It's not going well. And to be honest, it was always destined to not go well, but it was a crappy plan to begin with. Luckily,&amp;nbsp;there is a rescue plan for the rescue plan, if anyone cares to carry it out. It starts with some accountability and ends -- spoiler alert! -- with pulling the damn plug. But if the new tunnel to replace Seattle's Alaskan Way Viaduct is likely to cause traffic tie-ups, it's nothing compared to the perennial jam on LA's I-405. The popular navigation app Waze has started directing drivers off the freeway and into the residential neighborhood of Sherman Oaks,&amp;nbsp;infuriating the people who live there. Their solution: Try to convince Waze there are traffic jams in Sherman Oaks too. Our solution: Build a better transportation system. And that's it! This is our last podcast until the New Year. You can catch up on anything you missed on&amp;nbsp;iTunes&amp;nbsp;or&amp;nbsp;Stitcher,&amp;nbsp;and if you follow our&amp;nbsp;RSS feed&amp;nbsp;(or our&amp;nbsp;Twitter&amp;nbsp;feeds) you'll be the first to know when a new episode is out. Happy Holidays, and Happy Trails! Talking Headways: A Streetsblog Podcast http://streetsblog.libsyn.com <iframe title="Libsyn Player" style="border: none" src="//html5-player.libsyn.com/embed/episode/id/3251438/height/90/theme/custom/thumbnail/yes/direction/forward/render-playlist/no/custom-color/ed1c24/" height="90" width="600" scrolling="no" allowfullscreen webkitallowfullscreen mozallowfullscreen oallowfullscreen msallowfullscreen></iframe> https://assets.libsyn.com/secure/content/8074270