The Ed Murray administration, ladies and gentlemen. Our new, professionalized, fully funded, adult-supervised city executive. Way better than McGinn and his office full of underpaid interns who didn't know how to make the machinery of governemnt work, am I right?
Seattle has TWO deputy mayors, each making $170,000 a year, and yet this administration is totally incompetent. Imagine if they had to deal with real crises like the previous administration did.
I'm with @2. Murray sided with the few business loudmouths and decided not to have the bike lanes. He knew he couldn't say that, of course, so he decided to "forget it".
SDOT bureaucrats. There are a bunch left over from Peter Hahn, who just sit there, using personal e-mail for "other things" and use their positions to leverage other city departments and neighborhood groups for their hobbies, and fuck off actual priorities. Start from the top admin, and work your way down.
#1: Do they have any project or program manager types on staff in the Mayor's office? If not, hire some ASAP who are certified in those fields and know what in the hell they're doing. We have a veritable firehose of those types in Seattle because of all of our software companies.
#2: For interested parties this is the sort of thing you want to fire off public records requests over.
@13 they used to have staff like that, but they were all fired when Murray took over. He has filled his own staff with political hacks who aren't trained or skilled in project management.
@14 yep. And they will soon be cycled into permanent positions in city departments as high ranking admin, and then we will be stuck with them long after Murray is gone--esp if we follow #13's advice: hire asap, don't evaluate anyone from the outside.
Given how it takes anywhere from 6-8 years to plan and approve road construction plans for cars, why would any resident assume bike construction would be just as easy?
Arent you happy you voted for murray because.......gay!
#2: For interested parties this is the sort of thing you want to fire off public records requests over.
My solution is putting knobby tires on my bike and going Cyclo-Cross so I can ride on any gravel or dirt trail available.
@19- With a sign on the door that says "Beware of the leopard."