My family and myself love our town. We like Downtown Bellevue and other clean and well-maintained parts of our city, as well as the convenient system of public transportation.

However, on this backdrop of overall very clean streets, it is especially striking how much garbage one can see at the bus stop of the route 245 at the crossing of Main and 148th streets. There is not even a garbage can at the stop! Trash has not been removed for years; it accumulates and can be seen along Main Street almost up until Main Street Village.

Sometimes people living nearby attempt to collect the garbage themselves. Once I witnessed an elderly lady with a walker trying to clean the stop a little bit. It is inconceivable why this stop is completely abandoned, in contrast with the stops of the bus route “B,” which are equipped with trash bins, are cleaned on a regular basis and I even saw a vehicle washing the stop once. I realize that it might seem trivial at the scale of the city that just one of the numerous bus stops is covered in dirt.

But our youth, the students of the Sammamish High School, pass by and walk over this dirt every day. They get to consider it normal to see the trash all over the street, and start throwing their own trash on the pavement. They develop the habit that could stay with them for a lifetime — we all know that habits start from small things. Please help us to maintain our clean city.

Irina Voskresenska

Bellevue