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Chinese president in U.S. Associated Press and Herald staff EVERETT — Chinese President Xi Jinping arrived in Washington on Tuesday for a visit to the U.S. that will include talks on how U.S. and Chinese experts and businesses can collaborate on nuclear energy, smarter electricity use and other clean technologies. The visit comes a year after Xi and President Barack Obama announced their nations would cooperate to fight climate change. The Chinese president’s Boeing 747-400 touched down at 9:04 a.m. at Paine Field in Everett. He was greeted
by a long receiving line of dignitaries, including Gov. Jay Inslee, U.S. Rep. Rick Larsen, former ambassador to China Gary Locke, Everett Mayor Ray Stephanson and China Ambassador to the U.S. Cui Tiankai. “As America’s gateway to Asia, Seattle has enjoyed growing exchanges with China in recent years, which is typical of the overall mutually beneficial cooperation and friendly exchanges between the two countries,” Xi said in a prepared statement. See VISIT, back page, this section
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Chinese President Xi Jinping and first lady Peng Liyuan were welcomed at Paine Field.
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EVERETT — Traffic was miserable Tuesday, thanks to security for the visiting Chinese president. And it’s going to be miserable again Wednesday. But driving the wrong way on I-5 isn’t going to help. One of the consequences of a visiting head of state — China’s president, Xi Jinping — is that the security arrangements require a motorcade and shutting down the freeways. Also for security reasons: No one is telling anyone what routes the visiting president will take on his three-day tour around the region.
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Case in point was Tuesday, when President Xi landed at Paine Field at 9:04 a.m., was hustled into a waiting motorcade and was off to Seattle at 9:49 a.m. The Washington State Patrol shut down the Boeing Freeway and southbound I-5 so Xi could experience the Potemkin village of empty freeways and no speed limits. Pity the poor commuter stuck on the wrong side of the roadblock. South of the 41st Street onramp in Everett, some drivers who hit the roadblock elected to make an illegal U-turn into the southbound HOV vehicle lanes to head back north to Broadway. Not only is such a maneuver
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dangerous, it carries a hefty fine, said state trooper Mark Francis: $423 for driving the wrong way on a freeway. Nonetheless, anywhere from 25 to 50 vehicles tried to do just that, and it would have taken too much time for the trooper on duty there to ticket them all. “All he could do is stop (them) and turn them around,” Francis said. The State Patrol has been stretched thin, he added, with fewer personnel in general because of attrition and retirements. Dispatching troopers to escort the motorcade, to staff the roadblocks and to do their primary job of patrolling the state highways was a challenge.
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On Wednesday, drivers should expect more traffic snarls as Xi makes his way around the region. The state Department of Transportation has encouraged drivers to stay home, if possible, and to allow for significantly more time if they have to venture out. But without knowing the route the motorcade will take in advance, everyone will just have to play it by ear, and be patient if they get stuck. “The State Patrol plans to station troopers on some overpasses Wednesday making sure no one goes the wrong way,” Francis said. Chris Winters: 425-374-4165; cwinters@heraldnet.com. Twitter: @Chris_At_Herald.
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Southbound I-5 traffic backed up past the 41st Street overpass in Everett on Tuesday morning when authorities cleared the freeway for Chinese President Xi Jinping’s motorcade.
EVERETT — With the turn of a few shovels of dirt Tuesday, leaders of Washington State University and Snohomish County began preparing a foundation on which will rise a new building and launch a new era for the city. Interim WSU President Dan Bernardo led a contingent of officialdom in a ceremonial ground breaking for the Everett University Center that will be the cornerstone of the research university’s growing presence in the city. “This is a big, big deal,” Everett Mayor Ray Stephanson said a few hours before taking part. “For anyone who’s ever had any doubt of Washington State’s commitment to Everett, this should erase any doubts. We really can plant the (WSU) flag right now.” The four-story, 95,000-squarefoot building is being constructed on a chunk of land in the north corner of the College Plaza parking lot on North Broadway and Tower Street. The site is owned by Everett Community College, whose main campus is across the street. Work on the $54.6 million structure is expected to finish in time for the start of the 2017 school year. When it opens, it will have at least a dozen classrooms, 10 laboratories, offices, a small café and an area for public gatherings. It will serve as home to WSU North Puget Sound at Everett and the Everett University Center, a consortium of higher education institutions managed by WSU. Both now operate on the campus of Everett Community College. State Rep. Hans Dunshee, D-Snohomish, who shepherded funding for the project through the budget process, called it “the stake in the ground. It really means (the university) has arrived. People are going to drive up that street and see WSU on a building.”
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