Re: “To land a second airport, state’s case have to be ironclad” [Nov. 29, Opinion] and “Save our ferry system: A plea for assist from an islander” [Nov. 29, Opinion]:
The editorial and Op-Ed, and the just lately launched Washington State Division of Transportation Draft 2024 Freeway System Plan, present Washington state faces a monumental transportation planning problem. However our response appears to be to cut it up in items after which cope with them piecemeal. It’s irresponsible, to not point out practically unattainable, to cope with all of the transportation modes individually, since all of them must work in concord.
We want a Washington Transportation Plan that features air journey (together with airport development), practice journey (regular and excessive velocity), gentle 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 and development administration planning (similar to it’s).
However because it stands, all of those items are being studied individually. How can we probably anticipate a complete, cost-effective outcome to emerge from such a chaotic, fractured course of?
It’s too late to have 20/20 imaginative and prescient for a Imaginative and prescient 2020. That was so 1990. However it’s not too late to place all the problems on the desk on the similar time relatively than combating amongst ourselves to be first.
Mark Spitzer, Seattle
