Last night the Enatai Neighborhood Association Transportation Committee reported to the Bellevue City Council re: their survey results as to whether neighbors on their ENA email list preferred the B2M or B7R alignment for the Sound Transit East Link light rail project.
The results?
20% of the ENA respondents prefer B2M
80% of the ENA respondents prefer B7R
Also, here’s another sample of the messages we have received from an Enatai neighbor to the Bellevue City Council (with permission):
“Sent: Monday, July 18, 2011 9:53 PM
Subject: Study Session on Sound Transit’s Preferred Light Rail Route through Bellevue – Monday July 18th
Dear Council Members,
I am a longtime Enatai resident and have been part of this discussion regarding light rail in Bellevue since it started. I have talked with all of you at some point or another on this and other subjects. I was at the study session tonight and I just wanted to express my appreciation for your detailed and illuminating questions of the Sound Transit presenters, as we in the audience got so much more out of the answers than we did out of the presentation. I also wanted to say thank you for asking for more time for the Bellevue Council to study the data, as I really believe that Sound Transit is pushing their agenda and not responding to ours. While this characterization may not be entirely fair to their board, it is what we are presented with.
I believe that the dollars we as taxpayers have and are putting into Sound Transit (and Metro for that matter) on the Eastside, are not being well-spent, if spent on us at all. That value loss is painful, especially if it comes at the cost of continuing to be not served well by the public transit availability.
If you build it, they will come, and if you don’t build it, they won’t come. But, if you build it badly, they still won’t come!
Thank you for your hard efforts in attempting to make this transportation system built right for our city.
Sincerely,
Anne Kroeker