{"id":17523,"date":"2012-11-01T11:59:37","date_gmt":"2012-11-01T18:59:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/money-better-spent-elsewhere\/"},"modified":"2016-10-23T09:15:36","modified_gmt":"2016-10-23T16:15:36","slug":"money-better-spent-elsewhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/money-better-spent-elsewhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Money better spent elsewhere"},"content":{"rendered":"

I echo the sentiments of Donald Villenueve’s letter suggesting that a grade separation on 228th Street at the UPRR crossing is a poor choice of spending our limited road improvement funding dollars.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

I disagree with his suggestion of an overpass at West Valley Highway, however.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

Why not a grade separation on 212th at the BNSF railroad crossing? In my opinion, that should have been done before the existing 228th\/BNSF project. 212th is a much more heavily traveled roadway than 228th.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

The BNSF line has many more trains per day than the UP, so why spend millions on the 228th\/UP project when a 212th\/BNSF project would yield a much higher traffic improvement benefit?<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

\u2013 Bob Schutzner<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I echo the sentiments of Donald Villenueve’s letter suggesting that a grade separation on 228th Street at the UPRR crossing is a poor choice of spending our limited road improvement funding dollars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-17523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17523"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17523"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=17523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}