Re: “To land one other airport, the state’s case should be ironclad” [Nov. 29, Opinion] and “Save Our Ferry System: An Islander’s Plea for Assist” [Nov. 29, Opinion]:
The editorial and Op-Ed and the not too long ago launched Washington State Division of Transportation Draft 2024 Freeway System Plan present that Washington State faces a monumental transportation planning problem. However our reply appears to be to chop it up into items after which course of them piecemeal. It’s irresponsible, to not point out practically unimaginable, to deal with all modes of transportation individually, as they need to all work in concord.
We want a Washington Transportation Plan that features air journey (together with airport progress), rail journey (common and excessive pace), mild rail and bus journey, freight motion, ferry journey, and bicycle journey. And by the best way, it ought to all be built-in with our land use planning and progress administration (as it’s).
However because it stands, all these items are studied individually. How can we presumably anticipate a complete, cost-effective end result to emerge from such a chaotic, damaged course of?
It’s too late to have 20/20 imaginative and prescient for a Imaginative and prescient 2020. It was like that in 1990. However it isn’t too late to place all the problems on the desk on the identical time as a substitute of combating amongst ourselves to be first.
Mark Spitzer, Seattle