The approaches to the bridge are also being revised with park like lids and direct HOV access ramps. The existing bridge will be towed to Kirkland where it will reside on the waterfront with flower shops and microbreweries on top.
One minor goal is to provide HOV from Medina to SR202. No idea why people in Medina would want to go to SR202.
The new bridge will have tolls but we don’t know yet if they will be variable or fixed price. However we do know there won’t be any toll booth. Everyone who uses the bridge will need a Good-To-Go transponder. It’s like the EZ-Pass in other places. The same company will be administering the system. You just zip under the detector and the state deducts the toll from the real owner’s account.
This is a new opportunity for you to buy my genuine fake Good-To-Go transponder. I’ll even customize it for you. Just send me $39.95 and a couple hundred for shipping and handling and you’ll get an exact replica of an actual pass except it won’t do anything. It just makes the patrol think you have a real pass. I promise that you’ll save lots of money with it. Unless you have to pay fines for having a fake pass. That’s why I’ll customize it – keeps me out of trouble.
And you I-90 bridge users may not be off the hook. WashDOT says if too many people stop using SR520 and go to the free I-90 bridge they’ll add tolls to it too. Just saying – you need my fake transponder.
On the light rail front Bellevue is considering yet another revised route. We have this neighborhood called “Surrey Downs” just south of the business core that wants nothing to do with living in a big city. That’s why people move there – close to Bellevue yet not close to Bellevue. Anyway, they don’t want a light rail near their neighborhood. They have managed to raise a huge protest and now Sound Transit and Bellevue are actually paying attention.
Hear that Renton? If you raise enough dust maybe Sound Transit might remember your existence and plan a light rail to Renton. Just a thought.
Bellevue has also gotten word that mankind is no longer with us. In an oddly worded headline the Bellevue Reporter says: “Investigation continues into the death of Man.” As the line in the Monty Python movie goes, “I’m not dead yet!”
Bellevue has several red light cameras to catch folks scooting through after the yellow is long gone. Some places in Bellevue you can sit at the intersection and see four or five bright flashes on each light change. I got in the habit of stopping for yellow years ago. When I got my first license the booklet said the yellow light meant it was about to go red so you should stop. So I do. In Bellevue people have actually swerved around me just so they could run the red light before the cross traffic got going.
Now they’re adding more red light cameras. Next time you’re in Bellevue and see flashes at intersections its Bellevue cashing in. It’ll be years before everyone is trained that yellow means stop.
Newcastle News has a headline that says “Council Green Lights Sports Park Plan.” No red light cameras in Newcastle. The new sports park is just south of May Creek. People will have another reason to go over the new May Creek Bridge besides the Renton Wal-Mart.
The new sports park will have softball and Little League fields and two play areas. The final phases will include synthetic soccer fields. Not enough room for a real soccer field? How does one play synthetic soccer? Is it like fantasy football?
Newcastle is also replacing some of the new park signs they’re so proud of. The park signs were too big and people couldn’t see around them to check for traffic before leaving the park.
Newcastle has this new color scheme for signs that’s kind of a green on green motif. The big N in Newcastle is formed by a dark green square and two light green artsy leaves. Very high class.
Slowly street signs and other city installed signs will be converted to the green on green motif. Good places to hide red light cameras.
Wait! I just realized why my fake Good-To-Go pass won’t work – if you drive under the detector and it doesn’t detect a valid pass you’ll get photographed. Boy will that ticket be expensive. So heck, there goes that opportunity. Just send me the $39.95 and don’t worry about shipping and handling fee because I won’t be sending you anything.
Reminds me of an old Dragnet show – Sgt Friday was investigating a scam in which a guy ran an ad in the Los Angeles newspaper (remember newspaper ads?) that said last chance to send $5 to a post office box. No mention of why. The box was overflowing. In those days it was considered illegal – now just its politics as usual.
The green on green showing a coating of blue
Al
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