I submitted the following “Candidate’s
Statement” and “Experience” to the Secretary of State’s Office for the Primary
Election Voters’ Pamphlet for the 48th District Senate. However, they decided the 100
words I submitted for the Biography as “Experience” describing why my own experiences as commuter "deserved more" wasn’t suitable for the pamphlet.
Candidate’s Statement
Bellevue
and Redmond city councils, who could have disallowed permits Sound Transit
needed for East Link, instead promoted a light rail extension that will
devastate the route into Bellevue and increase, not decrease, I-90 cross-lake
and corridor congestion.
That
access for 48th District commuters will be limited to two stations,
far from where most live. That all
but a tiny fraction of their huge increase in ST3 taxes will be spent extending
Central Link to Everett and Tacoma.
That
legislation is needed to limit the WSDOT I-405 HOT to a single lane where fees
are raised to what’s required to maintain 45 mph with everyone allowed access
to 2nd lane.
48th
District residents should demand “more” from those responsible.
Experience
I’m a retired Boeing engineer who,
with my wife of 53 years, has lived in our current home since 1967, where we
raised two daughters. A lot’s
changed since then with very little of it good. I can no longer catch a bus near my home and the Eastgate
T/C is full well before I’d like to ride into Seattle. Longer lines to get on I-90 are followed by increasing
congestion on I-90 and I-405. Meanwhile
local roads are congested for much of the day because Microsoft is not required
to provide off-campus parking for employees. We deserve better.
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