White Center Now: The blog about White Center

Steve Cox often explained that he opposed annexation to Seattle because “what you see is what you get.” If you care about White Center and the other neighborhoods in North Highline, please follow the link to the full post on the West Seattle Blog and be sure to read the comments. Our neighbors in South Park are facing a disaster. Why should we believe we’d be treated any differently?

Is this really such a disaster? The 1st Ave bridge isn’t that far out of the way, and $120 million isn’t small. I’m curious to see if traffic doesn’t just resolve itself into more efficient patterns.

South Park Bridge: traffic patterns

http://www.kingcounty.gov/transportation/TIGERGrant/TrafficAnalysis.aspx

Has anybody ever seen AJ, George, and Mark Ufkes in the same room? Thought not.

South Park is in the SEATTLE city limits, no matter who has jurisdiction over the bridge itself. The City of SEATTLE has an obligation to the people who live in South Park and pay taxes there.

Where has SEATTLE’s leadership been? AWOL, that’s where. They’re all wringing their hands after the fact. It is a FACT that the 2007 RTID measure would have fully funded repair of the South Park Bridge. It is a FACT that Dow Constantine and Greg Nickels tried to get the RTID passed. It also is a FACT that now-mayor Mike McGinn opposed RTID and gloated about having helped kill it.

What other message COULD White Center take from Mike McGinn’s lack of concern for South Park? Who do they think they’re kidding?

Wow, I think someone really needs to go and check their facts. A good portion of South Park is most definitely NOT currently in the city limits of Seattle. While I can appreciate your passion, do some research first.

I offer a basic analogy. If I, through my own neglect, failed to maintain my own house and it were to collapse. I wouldn’t blame it on my next door neighbor. King County and Tukwila own the bridge, not Seattle.

In regard to your statement to Liz that it was “disheartening for me to see you use Steve Cox’s memory in a political gesture”. I seem to recall a Seattle Firefighter who was part of the pro-Seattle group (the group that bashes NHUAC, and claims that they never felt welcome at the meetings), who spoke at the recent NHUAC meeting about his friendship with Steve. You know the man that misses Steve so much he started crying. Well if any of you actually knew Steve, you would have known that at the time of his death, he was the president of NHUAC, and it is well known that he was opposed to Seattle annexation, and was very much in favor of annexation to Burien – Also on a side note, it is very curious that the pro-Seattle people who attended the NHUAC meeting seemed to not be aware of the work that the gang unit performs, and even worse did not seem to appreciate their hard work – is it because they all live in a little enclave that is sheltered from the problems the rest of us deal with being closer to the Seattle city limits? So stop all your self righteousnes, and gesturing – The bottom line is it does not matter what the “White Center Homeowner’s Association” says about Seattle annexation – we need to get the facts from the city – not from some bogus bloggers named “George or AJ” and certainly not from the Mark Ufkes, who as most people know has his own agenda.

You can exclude me anytime now AJ, scare tatics really?
South Park remember AJ is both Seattle City limits as well as Unincorporated. I say SP has been let down by both! If you can deny that, that would be amazing.