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Bring a picnic: A pothole — 12 feet long, three feet wide and seven inches deep — in the northbound I-5 lanes near Marysville flattened tires and caused backups for hours on Sunday.

If we didn’t need the lane on I-5, we would have suggested roping off the pothole and charging admission to the Grand Marysville Canyon.

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Slow train coming: ‘Supporters of a plan to bring light rail to Everett, and do it sooner than 2041, are encouraging people to attend a Sound Transit hearing tonight.

There is one advantage to waiting 25 years; by then the Grand Marysville Canyon should have grown long enough to stretch as far south as the Everett Mall.

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Two thumbs virtually up: A new feature at the Tribeca Film Festival in New York is a virtual reality arcade, a line of booths where you can don a virtual reality headset and experience a film in 360 degrees. One film allows viewers to wander a city in the clouds.

Sounds fun, but do they have a virtual reality experience where you can watch a movie where the audience isn’t talking, texting on phones or bumping the back of your seat with their feet?

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