University must be easily accessible

Imagine a jack-knifed semi on the trestle, icy roads everywhere, and the precipitous UW campus on the upper end of Cavalero Hill!

This could be the scenario one winter day in the future, and exemplifies some of the many reasons why not to put the UW campus on the county-owned acreage originally slated to be a 35-acre park. The already limited access (trestle, Highway 9) that becomes a traffic stopper with even one minor accident, the near-vertical trek up Cavalero Hill that is treacherous, at best, on icy days, and the inadequate size of the proposed property, even with the addition of possibly 25 more acres, all add up to a recipe for disaster.

The UW campus needs to be easily accessible, have plenty of room to grow, and have a more central location in Snohomish County. What better place than Everett, the County seat and home to Everett Community College?

JoAnne Erickson

Everett