From:                              John (Jack) R. Venrick [[email-masked]]

Sent:                               Tuesday, July 20, 2010 8:37 PM

To:                                   AJack R. Venrick

Subject:                          One Engineer's View or How I See The DOT (Rev A)

Attachments:                 NO Roundabout or Light at SR 169 & SE 416th St Intersection
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----- Original Message -----

From: Jack Venrick

To: AJack R. Venrick

Sent: Thursday, August 16, 2007 12:19 PM

Original Message -----

From: Jack Venrick

To: [email-masked]

Sent: Saturday, April 28, 2007 1:46
PM

Subject: One Engineer's View or How
I See The DOT

To: Property Owners, Government
Types, Media & Freedom Movement

Washington State has sprung a plan
to install a European style "roundabout" on the
rural road  416th Ave SE and SR 169, the Enumclaw - Renton
route.  The intersection borders 3 farms and a gas & market
store.  This is 1 mile from my land.

You can check out the DOT
marketing above and my first  letter to DOT

The first step in responding,
is to consider the source, i.e. WA State DOT.  You can check the
DOT's arrogant history at this site http://www.effwa.org/main/search.php.
The DOT is one of the most political used and abused groups in the
State, thereby corrupted.

The next step is to look at
what they don't tell you. Who is really behind this million
dollar European rural obstruction plan, e.g. sustaining development,
smart growth, UN Agenda 21, Seattle based
environmental extreme groups, etc.  This plan smacks of urban
planning nonsense.

You will notice their first
reason is safety and they quote 14 accidents in 5 years.   We
have accidents all over the Enumclaw plateau because drivers like to run
stop signs and lights when they can.   We have crosses on many
intersections where there have been fatalities.  So does that mean we
install stop lights and stop signs at every intersection on the
plateau?

If Auburn City government
was running the show, they would also add cameras to photograph your
license plates.  King County DDES has a program now to encouraging
neighbors to rat on other neighbors.

King County, State
and Federal BIA allowed and encouraged a 20,000 seat amphitheater
on private property on the plateau that messes up traffic 40 times a
year.

King County spends taxpayers
money buying up dairy farms so they can't use their property for
development.  Then the milk prices plummet and the dairy goes out of
business and the land is useless.  Half the farm is sold and both
halves cannot sustain any business.  It is useless land now.
However, would you be surprised,  it is prime development land worth
a fortune in the free market.  Incredible views but it is State owned
or at least controlled now at the tax payers expense forever.

A smart tax payer will note how
long and how much effort the State has spent to set the idea up vs. coming
to us first, i.e. the agenda.

The government agenda is often
different from what they say.  e.g. We learned from King County
regarding the CAO is they set up what they want to do and then they stage
a mock public meeting giving you 2 minutes and call it good to go.
i.e. King County had no intention of stopping the illegitimate CAO based
on unpopularity of it with the rural community.  The CAO was all
Seattle based environmental liberal extremism to shove it down our
throats.

You will notice we do are told
how many people and who are asking for this European roundabout in the
middle of farm land.

Will we be shown all comments
submitted with a tally including the property address from the
local area around the intersection?

Will the local neighboring
farms to this intersection have more weight on the decision?

Funny how the State can come up
with money for marginal improvements while we have major problems
elsewhere.  The State Fish and Game installed a $100,000 concrete
fish bunker on a near by intersection, 244th & 424th.
There was no need for that. That intersection has several crosses on and
near it from drive through fatalities.  Never mind the people, normal
culverts are not good enough for the fish, give em  concrete.

The intersection of 416th and
244th has ditch water over flow during the winter high rain high water
table days.  King County will not touch the ditches that need to be
clean out so the adjoining land can drain

The State does not tell
you the reason we have traffic accidents & problems on 416th
& SR169 is because the City of Enumclaw decided to eminent domain half
of the Rainier Stables farm and build a middle school directly on ST 169
just a few blocks south of this intersection.

14 accidents over the last 5
years corresponds to this new middle school construction.  It was a
terrible choice on location.  Whoever heard of placing a grade school
directly on a State Route highway going to a major ski resort (Crystal
Mountain) and national park(Rainier)?  Once again we see the law of
cascading unintended consequences caused by government. If government
touches gold, it turns to worthless fiat money.

Don't get me wrong, I love
Enumclaw,  it is my home town in King Communist County, close to my
little 10 acre paradise .

Don't forget the rural farmers
here cannot use their land and/or have limited use because of
the illegitimate CAO & GMA & the failure of the Property Fairness
Initiative (42%/58%).  i.e. mostly Seattle vote turned it down based
on lying & cheating.

Can you see the picture?
The government pushes its bloated self all over everyone out here
against their wishes.

I speculate, based on prior
experiences, that the decision has already been made on this
cute little impractical European intersection.

Washington State and King
County are no friends of the rural property owners, in fact they are our
worst enemies.

A million dollar urban type
intersection for a rural farm area is not the solution here.

The State, King County and
Enumclaw government are all of a sudden concerned about safety
because they now realize the Enumclaw Thunder Mountain Middle School was a
very foolish location to build a grade school.  State Route and grade
school kids do not mix well.

The answer here is to reroute
SR169 around Enumclaw and this school.  We have three major State
Route going through the little town of Enumclaw.  This is
insane.  All three routes need to go around the town not through
it.  This would solve most of the safety problems.

This proposed fix is a band
aid.

A better band aid fix until all
three State Routes can be rerouted around Enumclaw is the following.
Add a center turn land on SR169 so traffic coming from 416th can more
easily get on.  Also add exit turn lanes north and south bound SR169
onto 416th so people can get off easier without slowing everybody else
down.  No maintenance, no lights, perhaps less land to take?

The government does everything
upside down and backwards because they have no common sense just
government sense which is nonsense.

How many traffic injuries and
deaths in the State and King County compared to this one intersection on
rural farm land?  There are so many other traffic priorities beyond
this one intersection.

Lastly, I would like to leave you
with this picture and thought.  Ask yourself why the State has raised the
seat belt fine and even why their is a seat belt law.  The answer we have
come up with is to generate more money.  Americans have to start
understanding that the government no longer and never was our friend.  The
laws are not made to protect us, they are made to protect the government and generate
more for them and less for us.  Ever piece of legislation in Olympia takes
away our freedoms.  They are mostly political correct takings of no use to
any independent freedom loving person.

If the government could legislate a
cure for death, they would do it, not for you, but to tax you to death