41st St. not only example of misused funds

I chuckled in reading Ulale Gipson’s July 25 letter, “Traffic projects: 41st St. project is a waste of money” in which she remarks on the $16.5 million spent on a street to nowhere when traffic grinds to a halt morning and night.

So, let’s screw up the east and west traffic on U.S. 2 for 40 days and 40 nights while we resurface this 2.5 mile stretch, when a few years ago southbound I-405 was closed for 1 weekend while the resurfacing took place. That was round-the-clock; dump truck after dump truck of asphalt rolled out to get the job done. This was from I-90 all the way down to Renton. Just a wee bit more than the little 2.5 mile piece on U.S. 2.

Another example of tax dollars at work: let’s move the HOV lane from the right to the left side of the freeways and paste a little triangle on the back of the buses giving them carte blanc to signal once and start the move across all lanes to the coveted HOV lane – no matter who they cut off. You and I paid for their extra lane with taxes so the bus companies decided to let two person occupancy vehicles and motorcycles join them.

Marysville