Stimulus-funded bridge in Bothell a boon or boondoggle?
President Obama's stimulus plan has delivered a new bridge just outside Seattle — not to South Park, but over North Creek in Bothell.
By Mike Lindblom
Seattle Times transportation reporter
President Obama's stimulus plan has delivered a new bridge just outside Seattle — not to South Park, but over North Creek.
Employees on their lunch break are watching salmon spawn this week below the wooden, arch-truss span, built for $260,000. It's the newest piece of a three-mile Bothell city trail, which reaches a huge employment cluster and college campus.
But some passers-by are baffled, including Tom Tangen, who worked nearby earlier this year. A sidewalk already exists 20 paces away to cross the stream, along Northeast 195th Street near I-405.
"It's kind of embarrassing to have a bridge like this, that's not needed," he says.
..no shit!
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