Interstate 5: Before and After. For years, the group known as Lid I-5 has advocated covering the I-5 canyon to reconnect neighborhoods torn apart when the freeway was built in the 1960s. Now Seattle City Council’s Land Use Committee is embracing the idea of freeway lids, in part to create more space for affordable housing. Click play to hear Corwin Haeck’s report. (PHOTO CREDIT: lidi5.org)
