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Article: SURFACE LIGHT RAIL DRAWS PROTEST SOUTHEAST SEATTLEITES TELL SOUND TRANSIT TO PUT IT UNDERGROUND.(News)
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- Seattle Post-Intelligencer
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- January 29, 1999
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Sound Transit's proposed routing of the Northgate-to-SeaTac light rail line ran into a landslide of disapproval once again last night, this time in the heart of southeast Seattle.
Speaker after speaker at a public hearing in the Filipino Community Center told why the suggested route down the middle of Martin Luther King Jr. Way South should be scrapped in favor of a tunnel.
``We like light rail, but not at the expense of cutting this end of Seattle in two,'' said Colleen Browne.
Rainier Valley dentist Michael Washington said, ``The current plan uses money and topography as an excuse to shortchange our community.'' He leads the pro-tunnel ...