Regarding access to Pigeon Creek Trail, this is what you get when you have the railroad company on one side and the Port of Everett on the other (“‘An iron curtain’: For a seaside city, beach access is spase in Everett,” The Herald, Jan. 22). Two large entities have no interest in serving the public other than making a profit.
The Port of Everett could redesign their southwest area, so the public could use Terminal Avenue and park where appears to be at this time, a storage yard. BNSF could use its vast finances to build, either railroad crossings or overpasses/underpasses in that area to help facilitate access. I’m not holding my breath to see if either one of these will happen in my lifetime. As a kid I used to enjoy swimming at Pigeon Beach in the 1960s. Haven’t been there in years.
One of the great tragedies on Puget Sound is the building of the railroad down the shoreline back at the turn of the 20th century. This effectively curtailed access to the shoreline, and the bulkheads that were built have effectively destroyed fish habitat.
What a wonderful world it would be if that railroad was relocated east of Puget Sound and the bulkheads removed.
Howard Slauson
Lynnwood
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