Vagrants and drug abusers have appeared on a millionaire-filled island days after the opening of a tram link to downtown Seattle that residents tried desperately to block.
Mercer Island’s light rail station only opened on Saturday, amid howls of outrage from well-heeled locals who feared an influx of social issues from Seattle’s famously rough city center seven miles away.
Just days into the opening of the new Sound Transit extension, local police reports show that is exactly what happened.