Here's a video of Will Murray describing his proposal for a sidewalk in the Bitter Lake neighborhood. It's the fourth time he's submitted it -- ironic that it has been unsuccessful, considering the area is one of the urban villages that supposedly is the focus of our smart growth, walkable neighborhoods policies.
Seattle may claim to put a priority on pedestrian needs, but money talks. The $90,000 available annually in the Neighborhood Street Fund represents city hall's real level of interest in making streets safer. In other words -- very little.
There will be no comprehensive improvement in pedestrian infrastructure so long as city hall follows a divide and conquer strategy: allocating a tiny amount of funding and making the neighborhoods compete for it against each other. It distracts everyone from uniting as one community and demanding a solution that is good for everyone.
March 27, 2009
March 22, 2009
March 11, 2009
Another car runs amok
Hey, a bicyclist has been hit by another one of those driverless cars. The Seattle Times story in full --
March 11, 2009 10:38 AMYa missed a Who, Nick.
Bicyclist struck by vehicle in Wallingford neighborhood
Posted by Nick Provenza
A cyclist suffered serious head injuries after she was struck by a vehicle just before 10:30 a.m. in Seattle's Wallingford neighborhood.
Police and medics are at the scene, near First Avenue Northeast and North 56th Street.
The cyclist, a woman in her 40s, suffered life-threatening injuries and is being transported to Harborview Medical Center, said Dana Vander Houwen of the Seattle Fire Department.
More to come.
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