But about a year ago I suddenly found that to walk to work on the east end of downtown from my house on 17th I now had to cross over and back on Pine street no less than 4 fucking times! In less than a mile!

Are you fucking kidding me? Fuck you City of Seattle, and your fuck you crappy ass sidewalk closures too.

You provide a temp sidewalk and you cover it. That's it. If it intrudes on a lane of traffic, too bad.

There. Please remit $5,000 for this consultants' report. This is quite a savings over spending $10,000 to fly your directors and staff to DC to find out the same thing.

Please keep us in mind for other $5,000 reports. Thank you.

Sincerely,
PC, PE

for:

Sincerely,

Seems like they can read this post and figure out what they do in DC without flying there and going on vacation. What are they going to do, walk around construction sites,

Do they have an engineering department?

Seattle has long been under developers' influence, I'm not surprised laws like this are slow coming there. I'm willing to bet, however, something in the Americans with Disabilities Act already has strict guidelines about this. It might be easier to get those enforced than submit new legislation.

That's ALWAYS been the Seattle way and I don't see it changing in the forseeable future....

Just get them fellers in D.C. to take some fucking pictures for you of their pedestrian accommodations and send them on the email thingy. Then arrange a phone conference to have them sloooowly explain to you SDOT fuckwits what it is you're looking at in the photos. Then put the goddam techniques in place. Fucking boondoggle fucking junket.

Could someone at SDOT get on this instead of wasting their value staff time making pitiful excuses for their indefensible lack of action?

If ever there was proof that our City government is bought and paid for by developers - this problem is sure it (and even our former developer Mayor Schell never let things get this bad).

An aside - I had a great interaction w/a biker as I was approaching this site. He was cruising nicely along in the bike lane, and was just getting ready to pass a slower bicyclist in the bike lane as I was coming up on him. I slowed down to let him pass the other biker in my lane before I passed him, he gave me a friendly wave of acknowledgement, which I cheerfully returned. Who says we can't all get along?

If this so-called "Sheridan" person says that they can't make it work, then they're either lying or lazy or both.

Try a different lie and we might believe them.

Horrors!

There are "inspectors" who are supposed to enforce them.

It's simple open lawbreaking.

In the future you shouldn't need to wonder why SDOT and every other city department ignores you morons when you remeber your established track record of crying wolf.

My current city (Baton Rouge) hardly has any sidewalks at all, and pedestrians are forced to walk on the street. They can't even walk in people's yards, which are generally right next to the street, because there is usually a drainage ditch right in front.

It's finally gone. Right after all the publicity about the crime problem on that block, workmen appeared at that site and finally did whatever it was they were supposed to be doing and the scaffolding came down.

I expect an excuse, from you, for all of the dozens of other projects around town that completely cut off the sidewalks for months on end.

Don't worry. I won't hold my breath.

(however, considering SDOT's pathetic "too many hills" excuse - which is a bald-faced lie as far as most of the sidewalk closures I've seen - Licata may need to get 4 other votes on the Council to actually force SDOT to obey the law).

You might try placing the blame where it belongs - on the Mayor and the City Departments he runs.

Are there examples of places/times when SDOT rules could be better crafted or enforced? Certainly. But it makes it much harder to be heard in those cases when people like you go into histrionics over non-issues or (as in your previous post) simply make shit up. So once again, either get your facts straight or STFU.