This post originally appeared on Orphan Road.
Kudos to the Bellevue City Council and Sound Transit for agreeing to a compromise alignment for East Link that brings the stops close to people, not pavement.
I still think we’re in for a bit of a show when the vast majority of folks who live along Bellevue Way south of Downtown (the ones who don’t get too involved in this stuff) realize what might getting built in their neighborhood (just like the residents of Montlake or the Rainier Valley), but still… onward to Redmond!
Kinda sobering to realize just how much of this has been driven by the location of the South Bellevue Park and Ride, which should never have been built there in the first place. A shrewd reminder of how agencies get enthralled to their inner agendas.