As a Bellevue motorist, I’d like to comment on last week’s report on the Northeast 116th Avenue overlay project. The only voices against the plan were two pensioners living in the Aegis facility close by and a property owner whose concern is that the bike lanes end before the intersection — the same concern that the people who ride bikes down that road have. A total of 90 percent of respondents to the city said they were for the 116th plan. Six out of seven of our councilors voted for this excellent and inexpensive project.

Yet the top billing in a negatively toned article went to Councilmember Kevin Wallace’s irrational misgiving that if we go ahead and make that road safer for all users, people will only want the city to make other roads safer, too.

Transportation Commissioner Vic Bishop was quoted to say that there are only 160 people who ride bikes on city streets each day (though he does qualify that number by saying no-one has any idea really and it’s just a wild guess). I’d like to point out that the city spent months debating Kemper Freeman’s helicopter landing pad, despite no one actually flying helicopters downtown. What a waste of time that was.

Build it and they will come. Just like they have in Redmond, Kirkland and Seattle. Has no-one seen Field of Dreams?

Yes, I am a Bellevue motorist. I also like to get around by bike. And on foot. I’d even fly a helicopter if I had one. It’s just a shame there’s nowhere to land it.

Lyndon Heywood, Bellevue