Don’t trade parking for bike lanes on Everett’s Madison Street

Yes! Yes! Yes, to the letter about taxpayers and Madison Street bike lanes. How can such a project zip right through the system? (“Madison Street project will include bike lanes,” The Herald, Nov. 18) I have lived in the Beverly Park-Pinehurst area for most of my 82 years. We use Madison almost daily. There are four churches, a dentist office, hair salon and two businesses across from each other, plus a fire station, Fleet 100 and a neighborhood store. On top of that, this is one of the busiest intersections in Everett.

Between Broadway, Evergreen and Madison, you need to be there to see the work traffic. Madison is an old neighborhood. To take away street parking is wrong. It is a different era now with many homes renting out rooms, which add extra cars. We have one in our neighborhood and at times, the driveway has a many as nine cars. The article stated Madison would be torn up and re-arranged. That is too much for the sake of a few cyclists. We already have to watch out for bikes at Commercial when they come off the trail and cross Madison.

Please reconsider this plan.

Stan and Kathy Sexton

Everett