Your position on “Safe Streets” is just what our Real Estate Developer led City Council hoped for. Being a tool for Freed, Toll Brothers and associated greed driven interests is indefensible in politics or journalism.

Telling the voters that each needs to devote $16/month to accommodate rampant, unmodulated development in our city is beneath you.

You should be reporting on how the lack of intelligent growth management has forced huge traffic changes which endanger our pedestrians.

You should be reporting on how much each council member stands to earn as this untrammeled growth continues.

You might also report on why our police department has only three traffic officers tasked with keeping our streets safe rather than telling everyone to smile and pay the money.

Charles Malmgren, Bothell