THE RECORD
Mercer Island rEporter | www.mi-reporter.com
Wednesday, September 4, 2013 | PAGE 7
By Reporter Staff
Some 85 people attended a Sound Transit open house in June on the design of the proposed Mercer Island Station light rail station. The station is to be situated below street level on the I-90 center lanes but will be accessed from structures at street level; one each on 80th Avenue S.E. and 77th Avenue S.E. where they cross the I-90 lanes. The agency has released a summary of approximately 143 comments collected between the June 6 public meeting and June 14, 2013.
Comments on station design: • Incorporate elements of the area’s natural environment into station design: • The station drawings show a very white structure that does not blend into surroundings. Please use materials and color scheme that blends more in with the trees and hills. • I love the glass lantern design. • Art aspects might include: water, sailboats, swimmers, birds, ducks. • Please keep the silhouette as low/unobtrusive as possible. We don’t need anything too grand. • Understated is better. Use warm colors. • Reduce the apparent bulk looking north/south— renderings look too mas-
sive.
Comments on station amenities: • Maybe a kiosk near the stairs for buying coffee. • Also would be good to add a coffee and snack stand. • Clearly make it possible to use a toilet anytime light rail is in operation.
Comments on station access: • Interest in additional parking capacity: • Seems pointless to build a station without a certainty of additional parking. Park & ride lot is full by 7 a.m. • Why build light rail that either takes riders from buses or doesn’t have riders because there is no parking? • Please make sure there is lots of parking. Everyone on the east side will drive and park on Mercer Island to switch to public transport into the city or airport. We don’t have enough parking now. • A multi-story parking facility is required for commuters! • The largest hurdle for the station will be providing parking—the Mercer Island staff partnership will be crucial to light rail. Mercer Island city needs to sell a yearly parking pass to Mercer residents to use
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a Mercer Island funded lot. • A portion of the community center should be designated for residents with permits. • Resist adding more parking on MI because that would add to traffic jam between MI & Bellevue. • We do need some parking reserved for MI residents possibly a separate lot. • Allocating parking for Mercer Island residents is essential to making this work for our community. • We need allocated parking for our community! • For the station to serve MI – that is, all of MI – it needs parking that MI residents can reasonably rely on. I don’t see that in the current plan. • Please, work on a central parking area for M.I. residents only. Even now it is hard to find a parking spot during day. • Consider a 3, 4 or 5 story parking garage.
Comments on bicycles: • More room for bikes. • Include enough bike lockers. • Need to be able to take bikes through the station and onto the Link.
Police Monday | 19 Bike theft: A specialized TriCross bike belonging to a 27-year-old man was stolen from the 9000 block of West Shorewood Drive sometime between 5:30 p.m., Aug. 18, and 12:45 p.m., Aug. 19. The bike, hunter green with black streaks, had been locked in the bike rack inside the basement of the owner’s building.
Wednesday | 21 Fraud: A 60-year-old Mercer Island woman reported that an unauthorized attempt was made by an unknown person to change the address on her credit cards between Aug. 19 and Aug. 21.
Thursday | 22 Arrest: A 54-year-old Bellevue man was taken into custody at 1:56 p.m. and booked into the Issaquah Jail on a Mercer Island misdemeanor warrant.
to police. Arrest: A 34-year-old Tulalip woman was taken into custody at 7:40 p.m. and booked into the Issaquah Jail on a Mercer Island misdemeanor warrant.
Sunday | 25 DUI: A police officer stopped a vehicle unable to stay in its lane at 3:19 a.m. in the 5000 block of westbound I-90. The 44-year-old driver, of British Columbia, smelled of intoxicants and admittedly had been drinking. She failed standard sobriety tests, and was arrested at 3:37 a.m.
Police booked a 27-year-old man into the Issaquah Jail on a misdemeanor warrant after he was released from custody at the Olympic Corrections Center at 6:35 a.m. A 30-year-old Sammamish man was booked into the Issaquah Jail at 4 p.m. on a misdemeanor warrant after he was released from the King County Jail. Theft: A 51-year-old man reported that his Rolex watch was stolen out of his home, in the 7100 block of 87th Avenue S.E., sometime between July 24 and Aug. 3.
Monday | 26 Arrests: A Volkswagen Jetta was stopped at 1:09 a.m. in the 8000 block of S.E. 28th Street. The registered owner of the vehicle was a passenger, a 43-yearold man with a $1,000 misdemeanor warrant. He was arrested and booked into the Issaquah Jail.
Saturday | 24 Found credit cards:
A 65-year-old woman found three credit cards along the side of West Mercer Way in the 5400 block. She turned them in
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place of use will be tax parcel 2424049035 in the NE 1/4 Section 24, Township 24N, Range 4E. W.M. The new purpose of use will be irrigation of .25 acres during the irrigation season. No increase will be made to the instantaneous withdrawal rate or annual quantity. Protests or objections to approval of this application must include a detailed statement of the basis for objections: protests must be accompanied with a fifty-dollar ($50.00)NON-REFUNDABLE recording fee (PLEASE REMIT CHECK OR MONEY ORDER ONLY) and filed with the Department of Ecology at the address shown below, within thirty (30) days from August 14, 2013 DEPARTMENT OF ECOLOGY CASHIERING OFFICE NWRO-WR PO BOX 47611 OLYMPIA WA 98504-7611 Published in the Mercer Island Reporter on August 7, 14, 2013. # 840894. To place your Legal Notice in the Mercer Island Reporter e-mail legals@reporternewspapers.com
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Sound Transit releases comments on light rail station proposed for Mercer Island