Slog - Comments on Getting Around Southeast Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/getting_around_southeast_seattle Here's a little light reading for your weekend: The Southeast (Seattle) Transportation Study (SETS), just released by the Seattle Department of Transportation for public review. I haven't had time to read the 200-plus-page document thoroughly, but jumping ahead to the parts of most personal interest to me, I see a lot that's encouraging and a few places where's there's room for improvement. The city, it seems, has gotten the message that Rainier Ave. South is a death trap for bikers and pedestrians. With more than 600 collisions per year along a seven-and-a-half mile stretch of roadway, it's one of the... Copyright 2008 Fri, 09 May 2008 17:24:10 -0800 Sat, 10 May 2008 22:23:44 -0800 http://www.movabletype.org/?v=3.34 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Comment by Will in Seattle While most of us with cars don't mind LWB being closed for a few days each summer, closing it fulltime is just plain un-American.

]]> Will in Seattle http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/getting_around_southeast_seattle#c1021667 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/getting_around_southeast_seattle#c1021667 City Fri, 09 May 2008 17:31:58 -0800 Comment by umvue Yes, close Lake Washington Blvd. to traffic year-round. The city can install teleporters for access to houses/ businesses/ &etc.

]]> umvue http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/getting_around_southeast_seattle#c1021700 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/getting_around_southeast_seattle#c1021700 City Fri, 09 May 2008 18:04:18 -0800 Comment by Grant Cogswell I was on the Rainier Valley Neighborhood Planning Committee when we asked for bike lanes the full length of Rainier, in 1995.

Can I get you something for that bloody forehead?

]]> Grant Cogswell http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/getting_around_southeast_seattle#c1021710 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/getting_around_southeast_seattle#c1021710 City Fri, 09 May 2008 18:20:55 -0800 Comment by Argh Does the plan account for dudes who simply walk out into traffic, slowly crossing the street while looking no-one in the eye and acting like they own the motherfucking road? Because that happens every time I drive down Rainier.

]]> Argh http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/getting_around_southeast_seattle#c1021726 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/getting_around_southeast_seattle#c1021726 City Fri, 09 May 2008 18:41:12 -0800 Comment by ECB Argh @4: dude, I hear you. But at least some of that could be fixed by adding more stops where pedestrians could cross. Half the time it's high school students darting across the road - and no, they're not the best at looking. I don't know that there's any way to deal with Drunken Staggering Guy, though.

]]> ECB http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/getting_around_southeast_seattle#c1021739 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/getting_around_southeast_seattle#c1021739 City Fri, 09 May 2008 19:05:55 -0800 Comment by joykiller I would hardly call closing an entire road to motor vehicles a "modest" proposal.

]]> joykiller http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/getting_around_southeast_seattle#c1021767 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/getting_around_southeast_seattle#c1021767 City Fri, 09 May 2008 20:00:28 -0800 Comment by Dave Coffman Yeah good luck with closing LWB.

]]> Dave Coffman http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/getting_around_southeast_seattle#c1021808 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/getting_around_southeast_seattle#c1021808 City Fri, 09 May 2008 21:30:04 -0800 Comment by bob there are over 600 collisions between peds and bikes a year - wow.

]]> bob http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/getting_around_southeast_seattle#c1021873 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/getting_around_southeast_seattle#c1021873 City Sat, 10 May 2008 07:38:58 -0800 Comment by RainMan Lake Washington Blvd through the Arboretum is the only way to get from 520 to Capitol Hill without getting on the already overcrowded I-5 or waiting behind the horrendously slow traffic light at Montlake. I would rather not have to drive to work, but until this area gets a better public transportation system I have no other choice.

]]> RainMan http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/getting_around_southeast_seattle#c1021878 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/getting_around_southeast_seattle#c1021878 City Sat, 10 May 2008 08:31:50 -0800 Comment by oscar's mad wow, the brave white folks migrating south with their bicycles find the hard realities of south seattle... at least think of the bright side: those thugs strolling across rainier (w/out looking both ways!!) and the teenagers cruising at 50 mph will be priced out of the urban villages soon enough!

]]> oscar's mad http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/getting_around_southeast_seattle#c1021907 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/getting_around_southeast_seattle#c1021907 City Sat, 10 May 2008 10:29:10 -0800 Comment by Pedestrian It is great that SDOT is actulally doing something. Normally they just talk about how there just isn't enough money. Well, except to do improvements in wealthy politically connected neighborhoods.

]]> Pedestrian http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/getting_around_southeast_seattle#c1022032 http://slog.thestranger.com/2008/05/getting_around_southeast_seattle#c1022032 City Sat, 10 May 2008 22:23:44 -0800