Welcome

Hello and thanks for stopping by No Corridor Notes, a weblog dedicated to opposing the insane scheme of certain elected officials and bureaucrats, the Washington Department of Transportation, and corporate interests who are seeking to mutilate and destroy the last best places in rural Western Washington.

This is my first weblog so please bear with me while I get the kinks out. I hope this site soon becomes a collaborative endeavor and one of many websites opposing the Commerce Corridor and helping inspire and connect people who want to get out there fight it.

I welcome all comments and encourage you to contact me for any old reason you have.

Thanks,

Nate Johnson

And now a word from the ever timely Bertolt Brecht:

"Those who take the most from the table teach contentment.

Those for whom the taxes are destined demand sacrifices.

Those who eat their fill speak to the hungry of the wonderful times to come.

Those who lead the country into the abyss call ruling too difficult for ordinary men."

-Bertolt Brecht

Comments

[John Frey]

Could someone put me on the e-mail list-serv. I would love to get news of upcoming events and ways of helping to stop this. Thanks Hi Carla!

[Carla]

Here's a press clipping from the Wilbur Smith Associates website:

ARTBA Awards Wilbur Smith Associates with Top Private Sector PRIDE Award - 17 March 2004
The American Road & Transportation Builders Association (ARTBA) awarded Wilbur Smith Associates (WSA) the top private sector PRIDE Award for "excellence in community relations and public education that enhance the image of the U.S. transportation construction industry." The award was presented to WSA's Wilma Magyar, Construction and Safety Specialist, at the fifth annual "PRIDE Awards" luncheon on February 24, 2004 in Washington, D.C.

Clearly Wilbur Smith has a bias in favor of the highway construction industry. I couldn't find anything on the WS website about developing ways to transport people instead of building more, wider highways. It looks to me like they have no capacity to discover that the commerce corridor is a bad idea SHOULD NOT BE DONE. What do you call a corridor that develops the capacity to move people in a life preserving, non-air polluting way?

Carla Shafer
Bellingham, WA