Recently, the issue of light rail has been in the news as Sound Transit obtained public input on which of four routes they should select when extending light rail to Federal Way.

I have two brief comments to make regarding this issue:

1. Sound Transit should have built this light rail system about 25-30 years ago (like San Francisco did with their Bay Area Rapid Transit system); however, when it involves politics and obtaining funding to build it, Sound Transit (unfortunately) goes only three speeds: slow, slower and slowest.

If I had to pick one of the three, I would pick the latter.

2. Last, but not least, when Sound Transit finally gets around to building it (if they ever do), a lot of senior citizens (like myself) won’t be around to take advantage of light rail (unless we live to a ripe old age and the odds are against that). There is plenty of blame to go around but my vote goes to the state government (and its leaders) for not having the foresight to start this project in the 1980s so it could have been built/completed in the 1990s.

Gary Robertson, Federal Way