Walk up from Pike Place Market on uh, Lenora, or Blanchard.

I swear its almost a 30 degree incline.

I remember back in the 08 snowstorm seeing a city bus literally dangling a 1/3rd of its length over I5, having skid down a steep road in Capitol hill and not being able to totally stop in time.

Finally, if you want a fucking incline, go walk up to the top of Queen Anne from the Science Center.

You might as well be climbing a mountain.

I still find the Denny regrade astounding.

Basically:

Fuck this hill in particular, blast it with high powered hoses and pumps, then use the dirt from the hill to make pioneer square more level.

Like... the parts of the actual underground... those were originally street level, they just buried the roads and buildings in roughly a story or two ish of dirt...

...and while they were doing this, you still had the doors to these buildings at original street level, that people could walk into on the sidewalks... with scaffold/retaining walls for the new roads.

I had heard that a worker or two fell off the... new, raised street, onto the original street level sidewalks.

Seattle is, and always has been, an urban design clownshow.

Though they have made a lot of good progress with the lightrail expansions and reworkings of various public areas.