SDOT has extended the comment period for this project. Emails remarks to WalkandBike@Seattle.gov before March 4th. (That is tomorrow, for the calendar-challenged.)
It's about time... Seattle has some of the narrowest sidewalks of anywhere. In much of the city sidewalks don't even exist. It is time for the single person cars to share the right-of-way with other modes. There is only so much room between the buildings to move around in and most of it is purely for cars to drive or park. Let's make some nice space for people to move around in without their metal boxes.
What a joke. How about instead you bike riders get licenses and tabs for your bicycles, and we use that revenue for building you your own private lane of travel.
This is more about the pedestrian problems than bicycling. I'm not even sure it makes that much sense for bicycling.
The deal is that SDOT decided that 4 lane roads are dangerous and that crosswalks on 4 lane roads are unsafe, so they removed the crosswalks.
Nickerson cuts between SPU and lots of college students need to cross Nickerson every day, but there aren't even crosswalks now for something like a 1 mile section.
If they do a road diet, they can add pedestrian center refuge islands and crosswalks back again and make it safer so the car drivers don't kill more pedestrians here. That is the driving issue behind this change.
It is all about the pedestrians. The bike lanes are just a side effect.
"tyranny of the few"
Once you gather enough money that is…
Lots of parking lots that come up hills into traffic where drivers can't see approaching pedestrians or cyclists.
I'll pass.
The deal is that SDOT decided that 4 lane roads are dangerous and that crosswalks on 4 lane roads are unsafe, so they removed the crosswalks.
Nickerson cuts between SPU and lots of college students need to cross Nickerson every day, but there aren't even crosswalks now for something like a 1 mile section.
If they do a road diet, they can add pedestrian center refuge islands and crosswalks back again and make it safer so the car drivers don't kill more pedestrians here. That is the driving issue behind this change.
It is all about the pedestrians. The bike lanes are just a side effect.