• March 15, 2025 - Attend March 19th LFP land use hearing: Developer proposes to build a home fully within the sensitive area buffer of Lyon Creek.
   

• February 23, 2025 - Read our letter to the editor in the Sunday, Feb. 23 Seattle Times
   

• February 22, 2025 - CORE holds press conference at the Sheridan Market regarding cumulative impacts.  Reporters from KIRO TV and the Seattle Times were present.  Watch the KIRO TV report and read their news article.  See the CORE posters that were displayed at the press conference.  
   

• February 18, 2025 - CORE legal firm submits letter to Sound Transit challenging analysis of cumulative traffic impacts
   

• Jan. 15, 2025 - The city of Lake Forest Park is reviewing Sound Transit’s BT306 100% Geotechnical Recommendations Report which examines critical aspects of Sound Transit’s plans for a new bus lane on Bothell Way, such as retaining walls (section 6.5) and crossing Blsch’tla Creek (Section 6.6).  The City is reviewing the report to address community concerns and their findings and questions will be presented to Sound Transit and published on CORE’s website.  For context on the City’s approach to such reviews, see LFP Geotech Review Comments on Lakeview Townhome Development at 3803 NE 155th.
   

• Aug. 28, 2024 - The City of Lake Forest Park had a transportation engineering company produce the half-mile design alternative and forwarded it to Sound Transit
   

• Aug. 15, 2024 - Sound Transit has released a SEPA addendum for the project.  There is no comment period or appeal period for this addendum.
   

• July 11, 2024 - To facilitate planned one-on-one meetings with Sound Transit, the mayor and Council send another letter to Sound Transit asking for the limited design change advocated for by CORE.
   

• June 25, 2024 - Read Jeff Snedden's presentation to the LFP City Council from June 24, 2024.
   

• April 13, 2024 - Sound Transit formal response to LFP agrees to shorten bus stop at 165th but continues to use flawed Google data to say continuous BAT lane is needed
   

• March 12, 2024 - We haven't shared much humor on this site, so check this short YouTube video from Australia's Working Dog Productions
   

• March 5, 2024 - Read CORE's Sound Transit SR 522/145th BRT Impacts and Alternatives Report
   

• Jan. 25, 2024 - Attend the 2/21/24 LFP Community Workshop to discuss design options for the new lakefront park, including the idea to convert structures for cabin rentals to defray park maintenance costs.
   

• Jan 23, 2024 - Please attend the LFP City Council meeting this Thursday, Jan. 25, at 7:00 PM. to show your support for protecting Bsche'tla Creek and Ravine in its review of a proposed 11-unit townhome development dangerously near the threatened creek.
   

• Jan 4, 2024 - This lidar image of Bsche'tla Creek is a compelling view of the size of this fish-bearing streambed that would be disturbed by the SR 522 BRT project.
  
  
  
  
  
   

• Dec 22, 2023 - Read The Untold Story of Bsche’tla Creek By Brian Saunders, Lake Forest Park Stewardship Foundation StreamKeepers, about the immediate and extreme risk from proposed development at the rim of the ravine and Sound Transit's widening of SR522 for Bus Rapid Transit.
   

• Dec 11, 2023 - Sound Transit has quietly requested that the Sound Transit Board approve seven more property acquisitions at the Dec. 14 System Expansion Committee meeting and subsequent approval at the full Board meeting on Dec. 15.  One of the new property acquisitions is a small strip of land near 41st and Bothell Way owned by the Sheridan Beach Community Club.  

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• Oct 30, 2023 - The LFP City Council has formally asked the Sound Transit Board for "a detailed cost-benefit analysis comparing the BAT land and a queue jump with signalized lights".

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• Oct 30, 2023 - The LFP City Council has asked Sound Transit CEO Julie Timm to endorse the city's request for a speed-limit reduction on the LFP segment of Bothell Way.

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• Oct 9, 2023 - WSDOT has responded to the city’s request to reduce the speed limit and reduce lane widths (see “BRT Letters are available here" on this web page. They argue that though there are more homeowners turning on and off the highway, businesses in the more commercial 35 mph areas of Kenmore turn more often.  This plus the BAT lane acts as a safety buffer - but what about those giant buses coming down the hill at 40 mph?
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• Sept 24, 2023 - Join LFP mayoral candidate Tom French for his campaign kickoff, Oct. 4 at the LFP Civic Club.

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• Sept 22, 2023 - Sound Transit says bus queue jumps aren't feasible because of congestion on Bothell Way, citing Google Maps

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• Sept 23, 2023 - Sound Transit publishes summary of August LFP information session. Read CORE's report on the meeting and view CORE's video of the meeting to judge for yourself how accurately this report summarizes the session.

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• Sept 12, 2023 - Sound Transit CEO finally responds to Lake Forest Park request for 90-day pause and says an analysis of bus-queue jumps in underway and will be completed by October!  We must make sure this is review evaluates alternative designs that will not devastate Lake Forest Park and weighs costs and construction time against BRT performance gains.