It is incredible to me and others that a city that promotes itself as one of the most livable, would trade quality of life in established single-family neighborhoods for an ideological concept of densification to promote light-rail use use. The resulting use is marginal at best and the added cost of the concept is a budget busting $160 million to the city.

And that trade-off is made in the face of a far less residentially impacting alignment that can provide faster transit service and potentially better ridership at an estimated cost of zero to the city.

I remember showing up at the Bellevue City Council chambers about three years ago with some pictures I Photoshopped, showing an 80-foot high embankment along Bellevue Way, complete with graffiti, and was pooh-poohed by almost everyone. Now it looks to be a reality, unless the suit recently filed on behalf of the citizens of Bellevue can stop Sound Transit officials, or change their minds.

What I can’t wrap my head around is all the turmoil this silly trolley will cause, for a solution that addresses only 4 percent of the traffic problem, by Sound Transit’s own numbers.

Lawrence Graham, Bellevue