{"id":22240,"date":"2016-10-26T15:59:59","date_gmt":"2016-10-26T22:59:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/spiken.wpengine.com\/news\/what-no-parking\/"},"modified":"2016-10-28T09:35:27","modified_gmt":"2016-10-28T16:35:27","slug":"what-no-parking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/letters\/what-no-parking\/","title":{"rendered":"What, no parking?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Having seen several articles recently on Sound Transit, I&#8217;d like to offer my experience with it.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>I attempted to take the Sounder train from Kent to Seattle recently. I&#8217;m retired and wanted an option besides the bus. I drove to the Kent Station only to find there were no parking spaces. So I then drove to the Tukwila Sounder Station to again find there were no parking spaces. I then drove to the SeaTac station. No parking spaces there either. This was in the morning on a weekday.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>I contacted Sound Transit with my issue and after numerous emails, was basically told that the Sounder is a &#8220;people mover,&#8221; and therefore for the majority of business commuters. So it&#8217;s not for everyone.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>If that&#8217;s true, then why am I being asked to pay for it with my tax dollars. If it&#8217;s for everyone then everyone should be able to use it. The people planning for these sites should adequately plan for the parking facilities that are connected to the station.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p>I cannot use Sound Transit therefore I will vote No on any initiatives concerning it. My tax dollars are going toward something I cannot even use.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p><p><strong>\u2013 D. Pryor<\/strong><\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Having seen several articles recently on Sound Transit, I&#8217;d like to offer my experience with it.<\/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-22240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22240"}],"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=22240"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22240\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22240"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=22240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}