Talk:Yesler Way

"'East–west streets in Seattle south of Yesler Way are prefixed “South”;[3] avenues are suffixed with “South” as they cross Yesler Way.[4]'"Hoo boy. I've marked this as needing attention, as this strikes me as yet another WP:INDISCRIMINATE clusterfuck where the existence of ref tags constitutes the ONLY common thread tying anything together. I highlighted the above text for a reason. As I read it many years ago, Yesler was a 19th-century demarcation point originally between two homesteads, which later developed into Seattle and what was then a separate community to the south. The offset intersections are likely the only clue of this early history which exists today, and even many of those were reconstructed. I also recall from reading that it was the 1889 fire which began the elimination of these distinctions, as Seattle mostly rebuilt south of Yesler. If I'm incorrect about any of this, please feel free to correct me. RadioKAOS / Talk to me, Billy / Transmissions 08:48, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

Questions for (Seattle) civil engineers: I have to ask, why is it safe to have long term parked cars on Seattle Yesler Bridge over Interstate 5 freeway? Wouldn't the bridge be subject to creep deformation? --Conrad Kilroy (talk) 22:34, 27 November 2020 (UTC)