Overlook Walk

This guide to Overlook Walk in Seattle follows structural engineer Andrew Barash, who rated this pedestrian bridge a ten out of ten for complexity, not because of its height but because it had to satisfy both bridge codes and building codes at once. It traces the site's steep drop from Pike Place Market to the water, the elevated Alaskan Way Viaduct that once blocked the view before an earthquake weakened it, and the decision to tear it down in twenty nineteen. Look down through the railing at the roadway still running beneath the walkway above it.