{"id":272890,"date":"2010-02-03T18:52:13","date_gmt":"2010-02-03T23:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2010974711_stalling520bridgetalks.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-02-03T18:52:13","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T23:52:13","slug":"stalling-520-bridge-talks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/272890","title":{"rendered":"Stalling 520 bridge talks"},"content":{"rendered":"

Move on Seattle<\/strong><\/p>\n

Just when I thought Seattle\u2019s capacity for ditherfests couldn\u2019t be topped by the Alaskan Way tunnel and viaduct issue, along comes the Highway 520 bridge again [\u201cRethink 520 span? Gregoire says no,\u201d page one, Feb. 2].<\/p>\n

Does anyone bother to count the emissions from bumper-to-bumper traffic, when engines idle away and spew pollutants because a major thoroughfare is miserably out-of-date with traffic demands? And I\u2019m really tired of the NIMBYs [not-in-my-back-yard people] who, I\u2019m willing to bet, are not major mass-transit users. They remind me of people who buy property near an airport and then complain about the noise.<\/p>\n

The bridge replacement has now been debated for nearly 13 years with umpteen studies done. It\u2019s time for this city to pull its head out of the moss and get on with it.<\/p>\n

\u2014 John Neitzel, Seattle<\/em><\/p>\n

Seattle needs fewer highway lanes, cars<\/strong><\/p>\n

I\u2019m a native of Seattle who grew up when the houses were being torn down for I-5 through the heart of he city. Like most people I thought it was a good thing \u2014 only 15 minutes to Sea-Tac from North Seattle by car. Boy are those days gone.<\/p>\n

I would like to think that kind of shortsighted ignorance is gone too. You can count me in with those who oppose more car lanes for the new incarnation of Highway 520. The last thing Seattle needs is more space for cars, which create more congestion, noise, accidents, air pollution and more oily stormwater to pollute our waters.<\/p>\n

When will we stop converting our urban spaces into corridors of obnoxious, unnecessary blights to feed our automobile addiction? The governor and others who want to push ahead with the planned 520 upgrade need to stop, take a deep breath and really think about the future, not about the decision they made a couple years ago. There is always time to make the right decision.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Mark Quinn, Olympia<\/em><\/p>\n

Stop \u2018Seattle Way\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

The so-called \u201cSeattle Way\u201d sucks. I\u2019m writing about planning ad infinitum and ad nauseam to replace the Highway 520 bridge and the Alaskan Way Viaduct. Seattle and the state \u2014 with much news coverage and citizen involvement \u2014 have been talking about these projects for years and it\u2019s time to get on with the projects.<\/p>\n

I\u2019ve worked for more than 25 years in government community relations and communications and I completely appreciate and support the necessity to get significant, meaningful public comment on public \u2014 and private \u2014 projects. That public involvement must be carried out so it can influence the planning, design, construction and operation of public projects.<\/p>\n

But at some point, it must end. And the resulting projects \u2014 if proven to be necessary during that same process \u2014 must turn from talk into reality.<\/p>\n

I believe the case has been made, over and over again, for the need of the two transportation projects I\u2019m writing about. They are essential public projects to enhance mobility of people in our growing region.<\/p>\n

\u2014 Gary B Larson, Seattle<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Move on Seattle Just when I thought Seattle\u2019s capacity for ditherfests couldn\u2019t be topped by the Alaskan Way tunnel and viaduct issue, along comes the Highway 520 bridge again [\u201cRethink 520 span? Gregoire says no,\u201d page one, Feb. 2]. Does anyone bother to count the emissions from bumper-to-bumper traffic, when engines idle away and spew […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2861,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272890","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=272890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}