I am troubled by the East Marine View Drive (EMVD) project recently scheduled. I like the improving of this 1-mile of roadway, but don’t like spending huge sums of money to do it ($10.4 million).
I don’t think it makes any sense to send traffic destined to the Everett Port, paper mill, Navy, hospital or any of the docks and businesses along the Everett waterfront on EMVD. It appears to me that this traffic should go down Broadway to Everett or Pacific Avenue. Or on I-5 to the Pacific or Everett Avenue exits, then to the waterfront.
In making some approximations of traffic scheduled for the waterfront, it seems that the traffic, by not using short routes, will cost consumers thousands of dollars and waste thousands of gallons of fuel each year.
Estimated projections of traffic in 2012 makes this even worse. Why travel the big loop around the North End of Everett to get to a Central Everett location? It seems like this traffic should go on the short routes and maybe use a large percentage of this $10.4 million construction money on improving them.
I wonder if saving vehicle maintenance costs and many gallons of fuel would be worth it for the consumers, especially with our current fuel situation. Do we have other traffic routes costing us fuel like this one?
If the distribution of traffic were coordinated to go by the economical routes, depending on the vehicle’s destination, applying a simple wearing surface on EMVD would make this arterial street better than it has been for 15 or 20 years. It could handle the traffic for years better than now and cost millions less than the EMVD project scheduled. What do you think?
LYLE PETERSON
Everett
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