Regarding the “New Light Rail Plan Avoids Downtown Core,” I find Kevin Wallace’s dubbed ‘Vision Rail’ a misnomer if ever there was one. It presents an inefficient plan that is not only lacking vision but irresponsible.

Rapid transit has many purposes including serving the community, reducing traffic congestion and in the long term perhaps even improving the environment. This proposal with its “sort of near Bellevue” rail stop does none of these.

Light rail should indeed and quite frankly especially serve the downtown core including the many residents, visitors,

businesses and their employees and maybe even shoppers! Again this proposal does none of these and should it become the chosen route I can hear the nay-sayers now “no one uses light rail”. Well that likely would be true since the proposed route would be essentially without a useful community purpose.

I am old enough to remember the Forward Thrust projects voted on in the late 1960s. Thanks to a serious vendetta by Kemper Freeman Sr. one was defeated and that was light rail. Had it passed then we would now have an efficient transportation system/service in place and I might add at a far lower price. Please Sound Transit administrators do not accept this

latest proposal.

Sue Olsen, Bellevue