We are seniors living in our own home. We are more than willing to pay the increased taxes on our house for the Let’s Move Seattle levy (Proposition 1) to increase safety for all modes of transportation, provide safe routes to school for our city’s children and youths, and fund needed maintenance and improvements to intersections, sidewalks and streets [“One woman has now given $325K — 96% of anti-Move Seattle effort,” Local News, Oct. 29].
We can drive a car but want to ride our bicycles because it’s more economical, we can get everywhere faster without needing car parking, and it’s great exercise. It takes courage to ride and we do worry about collisions. We need all ages and abilities to have access to bicycle facilities for riding safely.
By the end of the levy’s life span, we will be almost 80. If the levy passes, it would be easy to give up driving and we will be able to use transit, walk and hopefully bicycle because we have a safe infrastructure to do so.
Most of all, we want the generations following us to have an excellent system of transportation, especially safe walking and bicycling routes and complete bus service so they can enjoy economical lives in the beauty of Seattle that we have known in our own lifetime.
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Kristi Rennebohm Franz and Eldon H. Franz, Seattle