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However, the Bogue plan was defeated by an alliance of fiscal conservatives who opposed such a grandiose plan on general principles and populists who argued that the plan would mainly benefit the rich: for example, the proposed massive Mercer Island park could, at that time, only be reached by boat.

The Bogue plan sat on the shelf, never to be used.

Ultimately, a few of the sites proposed for public parks were developed as such ; more became private golf courses and such.

The rail system was never built, and Mercer Island is now an upper middle class suburb, connected to the city by an Interstate Highway floating bridge.