Riding Sound Transit in an urn | Letter

Published 2:12 pm Friday, September 16, 2016

Based on our current property taxes, car tabs and the amount of stuff we buy, Sound Transit 3 will cost us $2,000 a year for many years and I will never use it based on our transportation needs, the location of our house, retirement, etc.

I lamented to my wife that we are being asked to spend all this money for a system I will never get to use because of my age and the construction schedule — which most likely will not be met. Not to talk about the usual cost overruns we have become used to now.

She was sympathetic to my plight. She said, “Honey, I will take the urn with your ashes for a ride if I am still alive when it is built.”

Can she really do this? Will she have to buy a ticket for me in the urn so that my ride is official? Someone at Sound Transit get back to me, please.

R. Francis Crerand, Bellevue