Mayor Mike McGinn, the city council, and the state department of transportation have come up with their list of appointees to a special committee to deal with traffic diversion when the deep-bore tunnel is built. The group is charged with preventing the worst-case scenario when the tunnel is built: 40,000 cars diverted from the current viaduct route on to city streets.

They're also supposed to come up with suggested tolls, along with potential new revenue sources, that would simultaneously raise the $400 million in tunnel funding the state hoped to get from tolling the tunnel, and keep tolls at a level at which drivers will still use the tunnel instead of choosing cheaper or free alternatives (like surface streets or riding the bus).

Those alternatives could include things like lower tolls (currently, the state anticipates one-way rush-hour tolls of $4), tolling on I-5 (to prevent people from diverting from the tunnel to I-5), retimed traffic signals that give priority to bikes, pedestrians, and transit, a streetcar on First Ave., or dedicated transit access lanes on north-south downtown streets.

In general, the council's appointees are more representative of the (business and environmental) establishment; the mayor's include bike and labor advocates and a club owner; and WSDOT's are largely similar to the city council's.

The council's committee appointees are:

Former mayor Charley Royer, who's now a public policy consultant;

Port of Seattle government relations  manager Henry Yates;

Seattle Aquarium CEO Bob Davidson;

Transportation Choices Coalition director Rob Johnson; and

Former deputy mayor Phil Fujii, who returned to Paul Allen's development company, Vulcan, after serving just four and a half months for the mayor.

Mayor Mike McGinn's appointees are:

UW civil engineering professor and city of Seattle Freight Advisory Board chair Anne Goodchild;

Crocodile Cafe owner Marcus Charles;

Longtime community activist, McGinn supporter, and United Food and Commercial Workers 21 union special projects director Sharon Maeda;

Landscape architect and sVr Design principal Peg Staehl; and

Cascade Bicycle Club planner Tessa Greegor.

The state's appointees are:

Former Seattle deputy mayor Maud Daudon, who's currently president and CEO of Seattle Northwest Securities, an investment firm;

Sung Yang, former city council liaison for Mayor Greg Nickels and current chief of staff to King County Executive Dow Constantine;

Bellevue City Council member Claudia Balducci;

Port of Seattle chief of staff Kurt Beckett; and

Former Washington State Labor Council secretary Rick Bender.