Having access to Edgewater Beach again is great (“April 16 article, “Public access to Mukilteo’s Edgewater Beach restored”) and the Port of Everett did an admirable job getting the Mount Baker crossing re-opened (now a train horn quiet zone) and building a new road with sidewalks to Edgewater Beach (next to the Boeing pier).
However, there is no legal access from Mukilteo’s waterfront area to Edgewater Beach. The only legal access requires you to take Mukilteo Lane from Mukilteo Boulevard. Unfortunately, the information provided by the Port of Everett suggested otherwise, and many learned too late that they couldn’t (and can’t) legally access Edgewater Beach from Mukilteo’s waterfront.
Although the waterfront path from the Sounder station to Edgewater Beach was opened in June of last year, it was closed (unnecessarily) for construction of the new road. It was supposed to be open when the construction was finished, but now it won’t because Washington State Ferries has begun flexing its muscles in preparation for the ferry move.
Mukilteo Lane is closed (and has been for over a year now) for the Sound Transit construction and the new gravel path next to the tracks connecting the Sounder station to the new access road won’t be open until the Sound Transit construction is finished.
So, waterfront access in Mukilteo continues to be a wish and not a reality. I can hardly wait for the new ferry terminal construction to start. It’s going to be a mess.
Kevin Stoltz
Former Mukilteo City Councilmember
Mukilteo
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