Make Sound Transit demonstrate capacity

The Nov. 13 Bellevue Reporter included an article about Sound Transit’s second of four weekend partial closures of the I-90 bridge to implement changes required for adding fourth lanes to the bridge outer roadways. They currently don’t intend to finish the modifications and allow commuters to use the added lanes until 2017.

Sound Transit should be required to expedite modifying the outer roadway and substantiate the 2008 DEIS claim: “Travel times across I-90 for vehicles and trucks would also improve or remain similar with East Link” by temporarily closing the center roadway.

Their current plan to delay the lanes until it’s too late to prevent center roadway closure poses an unacceptable risk for commuters.

Bill Hirt, Bellevue

Politicians, media out of touch with concerns

The response coming from politicians and the media once again shows just how out of touch they are with the dissatisfaction of millions of Americans with the status of the country and their own concerns and fears. For decades, the conservatives have been using social issues such as scapegoating primarily blacks and homosexuals for political gains and to distract the Public from looking at real issues. They have allied with religious bigots in this country to further confuse and divide the public. They have allowed foreigners to come into the country, taking job opportunities from Americans, and at the same time depressing wages for those lucky enough to still have a job, and are not in prison because of a criminal justice system designed to mainly to put in prison members of minority groups not just including blacks, but gays and other disadvantage, such as the poor and mentally ill.

In the past when peoples migrated to America or were brought here against their will they were quickly assimilated  learning English and respecting out laws.

In the case of African slaves brought here, most lost any connection to their pass having Christianity imposed on them along with other things like the English language. But too many Muslims arriving in Europe or America want to impose their religious values and laws on the entire country. Further concerns are that Saudi Arabia is funding a lot of the new mosques, as well as many of the terrorist groups, and has made it clear it would like to see its way of life impose on the rest of the world.

It is legitimate to ask, why aren’t Saudi Arabia and other Muslim countries taking in these refugees?

People have a legitimate right to be concerned about the future of this country, considering how much politicians and corporations have lied to and failed us in the past looking out for their own best interest and not that of every U.S. citizen, including the poorest.

George Whitaker, Bellevue