A group of Bellevue homeowners are telling Sound Transit that the low hum of the new light rail line across Lake Washington has completely ruined their waterfront neighborhood’s delicate freeway eco-system and its peaceful ambience of thousands of cars flying by all day every day.
“Admiring the dulcet honks of a BMW stuck behind a flock of Priuses stretched across I-90 is all over now because this train packed with poors is racing past us as fast as the slowest car on the bridge,” said Enatai waterfront mansion owner Rhett Criar. “I can’t even hear rush hour traffic anymore.”
In their letter to Sound Transit, homeowners asked if there was any way the light rail could instead crawl at about 2 mph so as to not environmentally disrupt the delicate nearby ecosystem of thousands of cars going 55-80 mph crossing the bridge every day.
“You’d be surprised how just a little jump in environmental pollution can completely change the mating patterns of a Lexus Coupe,” Criar said. “As if it wasn’t already hard on cars watching whole lanes of their riparian environment destroyed to build light rail train tracks they’re not even allowed to drive on.”
While waiting to see if Sound Transit will address their complaint, the homeowners are reportedly meeting up this weekend with residents of Laurelhurst and Denny Blaine to helplessly co-miserate over not having enough financial privilege to live anywhere except waterfront property near children’s hospitals, nude beaches, and interstate freeways.
