The End of the Blog

(changed my mind)
Maybe I’m an optimist but I consider the nearly 1500 votes for the Bellevue City Council a clear indication of concern about Sound Transit policies.  My BCC candidacy as well as last years 48^th district candidacy has never been about getting votes but attracting attention to this blog.  I’m gratified the 120 posts have attracted more than 11,000 page views since it started in May of 2012 with the “Case Against East Link”.   The blog goal of stopping East Link has expanded to also include stopping all of the Central Link extensions beyond the UW and SeaTac.  (I believe the lack of response from the Seattle Transit blog to any of these posts attests to the validity of my concerns.)

Emails to the Sound Transit Board members referring them to this blog have or should have made them aware of my concerns.   The members of the Joint Legislative Committee on Transportation, the King County Council, the Seattle City and the Bellevue City Council have also been referred to the blog as well as both the Seattle Times and Bellevue Reporter.  Presumable they account for many of the more than 11,000 page views.

Thus a large number of viewers are aware of the problems with Sound Transit current policies, how changes to theses policies could benefit the entire areas transportation future, and what might be done to make these changes a reality.  However, there is very little new I could add in future posts and am therefore ending this blog; gratified so many chose to vote for me in support knowing I had no chance (or desire) to win.   This effort has never been personal.  I live nowhere near any potential tracks and rarely use I-90 Bridge.  It’s my way to try to “make a difference”. Only time will tell whether my effort succeeded.  

(changed my mind)