July 2008

SummerFest was a real blast

With all this talk of recession and the reality of gas prices at a level even an oil sheik might resist, we wondered how West Seattle's annual big party would turn out. By all estimates and reports, it was a roaring success.

The planning and the execution were first rate if you go by the comments people made at the West Seattle Herald booth, where people puzzled over a history quiz and bought 14 months of subscription for 12 months cost.

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Battery dangers

Warning: Lithium ion batteries used in such devices as laptop computers are extremely dangerous. They can explode and produce a jet of flame without warning. I know from personal experience. These batteries should be replaced with safer alternative batteries as nickel metal hydride batteries. Lithium ion batteries are fire bombs waiting to go off.

Jack Zektzer

West Seattle.

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Drop peak hour zones

As the King County Council and King County Metro Transit are once again proposing fare increases in 2008, the need to adjust the boundary lines between peak hours zones is still warranted.

For some 20-plus years Metro has unfairly charged residents of the south end bus areas for two zone peak hour rates while residents of the north end, riding a farther distance, are only charged with a one zone peak hour fare.

With the upcoming second bus fare increase legislation in 2008, said legislation should address the unbalance in peak hours zoning areas and correct the traveled d

Metro does get

people there

I would like to respond to the editorial about Metro Transit ("Metro Transit needs overhaul") published the week of July 7, 2008.

There are almost 400,000 people - Metro's daily ridership - who would disagree with the statement in the editorial that most buses do not "go the way people need to go." In recent years, Metro Transit has not had problems attracting new riders. Last year we carried a record 110 million riders, and so far this year Metro ridership is already up 6 percent over last year for January through May.

Ercolini misconceptions

In response to Jerry Dodson's misconception of Ercolini Park (July 9).

Having grown up in West Seattle and living just 2 blocks from what is now Ercolini park, I can say

Mr. Dodson's review of the park is far from fair or realistic.

As children, we would try and play in the large field that abutted Southwest Alaska Street, but were often chased off. When you're a kid, you would just chalk it up to a cranky old man. In retrospect, I'm sure Mr.

Many prefer smaller school on Vashon

If one were to get on the 6:45 a.m. ferry to Vashon from Fauntleroy, they may notice an abnormal excess of adolescents present for such an early hour of the day.

What many don't know is that most of these unexpected adolescents are commuters. As students graduate from elementary and middle school, parents and children alike shy away from the prospect of enormous schools in the Seattle Public School District and the elite private schools all over the city.

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