Cars targeted by planners

On Sept. 30, I attended the Lincoln Heights neighborhood renovation plan meeting. The biggest problem in Lincoln Heights is increasing traffic due directly to the proliferation of large apartment complexes in the area. What brilliant solution does the outside consulting team propose for our neighborhood? Unbelievably, it’s to actually “increase population density” by encouraging more “multi-family housing” units, while reducing speed limits and traffic lanes through Lincoln Heights, cutting back the amount of available parking, adding extra crosswalks on 29th Avenue and closing off 27th Avenue by Thornton Murphy Park.

It’s pretty obvious all those plans would only make traffic congestion worse. Yet they claim all this would help the local businesses. Baloney. The hidden agenda is nothing less than to intentionally make traffic so bad people simply give up driving in Lincoln Heights. But the planners can’t say that because people would be outraged at such intrusive manipulation. So they candy coat it with talk about installing “Welcome to Lincoln Heights” signs, at taxpayer expense, of course. Whoopee. That’ll help our traffic problems.

Keep your eyes wide open and don’t be bamboozled by these anti-automobile activists.

Ted Kisebach

Spokane