My compliments to Craig Keller. In my limited exposure to the issue of viaduct options (tunnel, repair, rebuild or tear down), his poll at the West Seattle Street Festival is the first vote I've seen that asks citizens what should be done. Even if the poll was randomized at a dartboard.

Absent are the inflated opinions of developers, downtown boosters, shortsighted transportation luddites posing as environmentalists, lobbyists, paid consultants and other individuals and groups with either political or economic advantage at stake. I suspect they were a tad too busy with their plans for changing the face of our world-class city to come out to the fair.

All Keller appears to have asked are just plain folk. But who cares about them?

Seattle City Council has talked about a non-binding referendum on the issue (non-binding because I guess they're afraid of the outcome) but they also seem to be talking louder about not having it (I guess they must be really afraid of the outcome).

Peter Stekel

Alki