LETTER TO THE EDITOR | Consider re-grade over funicular, lift in Langley

Editor, Well, it is too late to run for mayor, but if I did my campaign would champion a “Langley re-grade” public works project that would eliminate the need for the maligned funicular. I can’t take credit for the idea that would eliminate the bluff that separates the waterfront from Langley proper. I found the idea in an early 1960s Island County “general plan” by Harstad Associates, an engineering/planning firm. The plan shows a section view of Langley Loop Road and how the re-grade would allow the waterfront to blend in and become a focal point of the town.

June 12, 2015 7:25 pm

Editor,

Well, it is too late to run for mayor, but if I did my campaign would champion a “Langley re-grade” public works project that would eliminate the need for the maligned funicular.

I can’t take credit for the idea that would eliminate the bluff that separates the waterfront from Langley proper. I found the idea in an early 1960s Island County “general plan” by Harstad Associates, an engineering/planning firm. The plan shows a section view of Langley Loop Road and how the re-grade would allow the waterfront to blend in and become a focal point of the town.

Yes, it is a big and bold idea, but look what it did for Seattle. The “Denny re-grade” eliminated a hill that had “blocked the city’s manifest destiny of northward expansion.”

A “Think Big, Langley!” bumper sticker idea is free to all candidates who metaphorically put their hat in the ring and agree with me.

BRAD ROBERTSON

Clinton