When Shoreline says they invest in the community, what they mean is that they take our tax dollars and spend them on stupid stuff so they can get money in the pockets of the land developers.  Here is one such example project:

195th ST NE between 1st Ave NE and 5th Ave NE carried maybe a car every fifteen minutes.  Not a lot of traffic since it dead-ends at 1st, except for a foot trail, and it only goes a block and a half past 5th where it again dead ends because of I-5.  There is a food bridge, but like the other end of the street no accommodation of automotive traffic.

But our Shoreline City Council decided we needed to waste more than half a million dollars to turn this into a separated trail to keep the once every fifteen minute bicyclists separated from the once every fifteen minute automotive traffic.