{"id":519657,"date":"2010-04-07T18:09:32","date_gmt":"2010-04-07T22:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2011550256_mcginnon520bridge.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-04-07T18:09:32","modified_gmt":"2010-04-07T22:09:32","slug":"mcginn-on-520-bridge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/519657","title":{"rendered":"McGinn on 520 bridge"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Time to float action, decision<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Editor, The Times:<\/p>\n<p>I was born at Ballard General Hospital 48 years ago and have lived in the Greater Seattle area all my life. One of things I love about our community is our style of discussion and civil debate. We all have input and we all have a chance to be heard.<\/p>\n<p>Now that very thing I love could also make me crazy.<\/p>\n<p>Mayor Mike McGinn has come to the planning of the 520 bridge replacement a little too late. [\u201cSlam brakes on design of 520, McGinn urges,\u201d page one, April 7.]<\/p>\n<p>This topic has been discussed ad nauseam \u2026 There have been debates, votes and studies over the course of years. In the true Seattle spirit, we are trying to get everyone on board, but the truth is that not everyone will ever agree on any particular plan.<\/p>\n<p>There are certainly things about the bridge replacement that I am not happy about. However, enough money has been spent, enough studies have been done and the time has come for action.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Susan Trent, Bellevue<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Time to float action, decision Editor, The Times: I was born at Ballard General Hospital 48 years ago and have lived in the Greater Seattle area all my life. One of things I love about our community is our style of discussion and civil debate. We all have input and we all have a chance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2861,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-519657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519657","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=519657"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519657\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519657"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519657"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519657"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}