Front page headline “outrage,” screams The Herald (“Waterfront disconnect; Edmonds roadway stirs online outrage,” June 18). This article seems to relish the present angst versus the original time of proposals when people were happily discussing alternatives and accepting the problem of first response west of the BNSF tracks.
And of course, the most radical of the initial proposals: the “train trench” and “tunnels” are resurrected examples most spurned without the realism of a comprehensive long-term solution that keeps every one happy and of course costs more money.
Years ago was the ferry traffic parking and loading problem was also addressed and mysteriously dismissed. The biggest failure is the collective Edmonds waterfront visual rejection of anything that will solve the problem but block someone’s views.
The second problem is the landed gentry’s visual perspectives or suspicions of their loss of market value. And so, the simplest and the cheapest plans put forward are now pleasing no one. Everybody wants a piece of the action but refusing to sacrifice anything for personal commitment. Ten years ago, one plan to solve all the problems was rejected and so, today, it’s a bum deal for all now concerned.
It is an Edmonds kinda day! When Edmonds fancies itself to be the Carmel-by-the-Sea of the Pacific Northwest, wacko ideas result. There is a solution but Edmonds is having none of it.
Samuel Bess
Stanwood
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