The Blue Angels will take to the skies for Seafair on Thursday, and for the first time during their practices and shows, there will be light rail trains rolling across I-90.
If you didn’t live here before 2019, the Blue Angels’ practices and shows created some of the worst congestion you could imagine. Before the F/A-18 Super Hornets could take flight from Boeing Field, the state had to shut down I-90 under their flight paths. That meant the entire region would shut down.
Since the first practice round was around 11 a.m., that’s when I-90 would close. About an hour later, I-90 would reopen, only to close again about an hour later…