Eastside should be light rail, says SoundTransit
In a rapid follow-up to my post the other day, the final word is in… Sound Transit is going to go to the voters in 2007 with the Light Rail option. Great news for the future of the whole of the Puget Sound area, and great news for those of us who live in Seattle but work in Redmond (or Bellevue)!
But there’s some depressing news, and it has two parts:
- We have to wait until November 2007 to vote on it, and passing this vote is not certain.
- Even if it passes the vote next year, the PI points out that “the trains, planned to cross Lake Washington along Interstate 90, won’t start running for at least 15 years”.
Ugh. We need light rail TODAY, but I suppose it’s better to get it in 15 years than never…
Evan Dodds - Non-work-related blog » Four replies about Light Rail to the Eastside said,
August 1, 2006 at 7:51 am
[...] A few weeks ago while various local politicos were debating light-rail to the east side, I sent some email to the lot of them through an easy form provided by TransportationChoices (form is now gone). The email went out to about 10–15 local politicians and board members, expressing both the “form letter” stuff about how important it was that we have light rail, along with my personal experiences and opinions on the topic. [...]