That parking lot looks familiar

btw I was very involved in this crown hill 10 years ago. The city promised a bunch of plans to appease neighbors who didn’t want an upzone. The upzone was a major success, the public plans were not. Caused substantial amount of distrust with the nimby crowd.

That corner is grim. All buildings face away from the street and it's close to large surface parking lots. The city would need to partner with private builders to completely reconstruct the commercial experience.

This tiny block on Phinney is blocked off yearly for the Glocone lighting, and heavily used by pedestrians to access the Friday summertime market. Would be such an easy project to square it off into a pedestrian street.

a protected intersection would be better than a curb bulbs here.

It's a major shame the ship canal water quality project did not rethink the areas it closed down for several years.

The "even better bike lane" on union between 14th & MLK, on the other hand, is a marked improvement because it's relocating the path. I just hate that several miles of toronto barriers are being used up for performative metrics on bike lanes that were already pretty good.

@seattledot.bsky.social is about to make an equally costly and unnecessary enhancement to Gilman Ave W, which is a already a safe ride. Lack of political will to fix the real problems funnels the infrastructure money into places that don't need it.

Modal filters on greenways

Put them on the street to daylight the intersections.

Over half the parents in my daycare in Seattle use cargo bike to take kids in.

I’m in hilly, rainy Seattle.

This bike lane is difficult to get to and has rarely been a useful route for me. It feeds into the carbrain theory of empty bike lanes.

Isn't this the point of the plan? To add the facilities when the repaving occurs?

Maybe blame design review instead? The building exploded, a new building was proposed, and funding fell through.

I legally setup a play street and someone called the cops on me for blocking traffic. I live on an infamously bad cut through street in Phinney ridge (73rd). What should I have done?

Can I install a bike rack here?

One of your best projects!

The free bus zone in downtown Seattle was unfortunately gross. I’m all about subsidizing transit but we get very different between outcome between $2.75, $1 and free. I’m in the $1 camp.

Every time I see SDOT rebuilding a curb ramp due to the Reynoldson v. City of Seattle lawsuit, I wonder if the law would accept a continuous sidewalk or curb bulb. It seems some demolition costs could be avoided.

Some street's in my neighborhood are now more dangerous due to SDOT recently adding no parking signs along the full length of the street. I'm pretty sure it's due to the fire station's complaints. N 73rd near Phinney is a good example.

Similar to the N 130th infill station, I'm concerned by adding more stops that make lightrail slower than it already is.

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