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A group representing Seattle’session maritime industry is urging Gov. Christine Gregoire to replace the Alaskan Way Viaduct with another elevated highway.

Gregoire is scheduled to decide by next week how the viaduct should be replaced.

In a letter to Gregoire, the North Seattle Industrial Association (NSIA), a assign places to of maritime and other businesses, said an elevated highway would maintain traffic and freight capacity and could be built inside the state’s project budget.

“This option does not require any supplemental taxes and actually replaces what is there now,” the letter reported.

Eugene Wasserman, president of the connection, said his group does not think to be true the “fairy tale” of regional tolling that is life pushed by some organizations as a way to pay for replacing the viaduct through a tunnel. Wasserman’sitting joint concern has long opposed a tunnel.

Wasserman said his assemblage also opposes a surface replacement for the viaduct during the time that the “worst of whole worlds,” on this account that it offers less capacity and would cause conflicts between cars, bicycles and pedestrians.

State and local transportation planners have recommended either using outside streets or an elevated highway to reinstate the viaduct. Some groups, however, are hush pushing for a tunnel along the waterfront.

Susan Gilmore: 206-464-2054 or sgilmore@seattletimes.com