When I read some of the opinions about Mayor Tim Leavitt’s State of the City address in the March 12 Columbian, I had to reply.
I would like to thank Sen. Ann Rivers, R-La Center, for her response to Leavitt’s comments on why the Columbia River Crossing failed. If Leavitt thinks about how he became mayor, he ran his first election on an anti-tolling stand.
This project has gone awry from the start, then got worse as the years went by. In reality, we could use a new bridge but not with light rail. Why did the whole concept of the bridge lay solely on light rail? Why would light rail be more important than commercial viability of upstream businesses? Why would the local government offer our tax money to send the existing upstream businesses elsewhere?
Maybe it’s because some of our elected officials weren’t listening, and that’s why we won’t have a new bridge.
