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Play hardball.

Cut certain funding for areas like Broadmoor, Madison, Leschi, far West Seattle, certain shoreline areas and so on and so forth. Pass the savings to places like Ballard, Capitol Hill, Columbia City, etc., including these bike/ped improvements.
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did you mean overpass at 45th not 47th?
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When did bike lanes become the most important economic-downturn issue in Seattle?
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@1 Great idea! but not fine enough in resolution. For instance, Ballard is too diverse a place to be on the receiving end of our excellent plan to redress the evil that is Leschi and Broadmore. So it must judged block by block. North of NW 65th and east of 24th Ave receives your redistributed largess while to the west of 24th: nothing! Each block and each house being judged by its intrinsic bike (and to a lesser degree "ped") friendliness. The goats upon the left the sheep upon the right! Oh there shall be a reckoning south of Aloha and east of 23rd there shall be...
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@3 about the time gas prices shot up and Toyota's started losing their ability to brake.
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@4: Sarc mark
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All cyclists in Seattle are, for the overwhelming majority, citizens of Seattle or their dependents, and pay taxes locally.

The same can NOT be said for people using our roadways for their cars.

It's obvious where the cuts need to be - on the expensive cars-only parts, not the sidewalks or bike paths that are far far cheaper and used by we the citizens and our visiting tourists, not the suburban tax-subsidized car-using suburban wastrels.

(man I love hoisting tea baggers and libertarians by their own petards)
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I'm guessing the unemployment rate in the construction sector is pretty high around these parts. Find the money and start building stuff, Mister Mayor.
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Great, during a deficit like the one we have now our money should not be going towards bike lanes and pedestrian improvements.
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@10 - Why not? What you don't think that people tend to walk and ride bikes more when they're broke?
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slash tires - lots of them
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While those are some okay suggestions, everybody, I'm just going to keep on riding my bike whether or not the city spends money on "bike improvements." I have a hunch that might be the best plan.
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@2: I think they're talking about building an entirely new, ped-only bridge across the freeway at 47th, between the 45th and 50th road bridges.

Personally, I can't see how this is worth the investment. I live blocks away from this spot, and the sidewalks on 45th & 50th are definitely bikeable.

What really pisses me off is the way that SDOT said they don't need bike facilities on a rebuilt 45th Street viaduct by U. Village, supposedly because "it's too steep" for bicyclists. Bull, bikes use much steeper streets all over the city where the connection's that important. There are no bikes because there's no room for them. As usual.
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Given Washington State's budget, these bike-ped projects are the only ones that should be built as they increase value and livability for phenomenally little money.
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"Hiller adds that although bicycling and walking make up nearly 10 percent of all trips in Puget Sound, they generally receive less than two percent of capital construction funds."

Huh, I guess cyclists don't use roads or sidewalks anywhere in the City anymore. How strange!
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@Will. You are an idiot. Anyone that has a Washington State license plate, WA State registration, pays insurance to an insurance company, buys gas, or buy/sales their car contributes more to Seattle's tax base than someone who solely bikes(assuming they both live half ass normal lives and shop regularly). Living outside the city does not necessarily exclude your tax dollars from finding their way into the city. The State legislator factors in how many people travel to or through Seattle. That is why Seattle sees an unproportionate amount of tax dollars per capita for capital projects.
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If this is what Cienna is deciding to focus on, then she has a clear disconnect with the actual problems the people in this city are facing.
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@17 - I stand by my statement.

Local roads are paid for by the citizens and property owners of the city - NOT you suburbanites.

Bikes own the roads - cause we live here.
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@ Will. You are intitled your own opinions, but not you own logic/facts.

Local roads are paid for by EVERY CITIZEN IN THE STATE. Look at the tax code instead of talking out of you ass.

And ps....I live on the hill jackass. I am not a suburbanite. I wish I was though, then I would own a house one a lot bigger than a postal stamp. But if hurling supposed insults is how you deal with people calling out your faulty logic, go right ahead. It seems to work for most people that dont know what they are talking about.
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@20 "I am not a suburbanite. I wish I was though..." Then LEAVE. What's stopping you?
Yeah I looked at the tax code and I looked longer at the actual budget. The vast majority of local roads are paid for locally.

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