Can You Drive Between the Monorail Columns on Fifth Avenue?

You cruise down Fifth Avenue in downtown Seattle as the monorail rumbles above you. You’re in the right-hand lane, on the Belltown side, but you realize you need to be at the far left if you’re going to swing a turn toward I-5 in a few blocks. Changing lanes would mean swerving underneath the monorail columns. Pop quiz, hotshot: what do you do?

Most Seattleites go for it, changing lanes on Fifth Avenue as if there wasn’t a nearly 94,000 pound train lurching its way from Westlake to Seattle Center about 30 feet overhead. But at some point, most of us probably wonder whether what

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