Comments on: ‘Streets For People’ Campaign Kicks off in Seattle

By: Best Woodworking Plans

Best Woodworking Plans — Sun, 12 Dec 2010 20:40:32 +0000

The campaign will be coordinating with a broad range of local organizations.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Wed, 18 Mar 2009 23:08:28 +0000

Some of the things about Seattle’s streets that make it a city that is less than friendly for pedestrians:
1. the numerous garage entries on downtown streets, accompanied by voice commands, flashing lights or other unpleasant sensory stimuli to warn people when a car approaches. The sights and sounds are unpleasant; these garage entries are also dead spaces, and many of the side streets in Seattle’s downtown core are nothing but garage after garage.
2. “Sidewalk closed” signs that are up for months or years at a time while a building is under construction. Auto space is not surrendered, but pedestrian space is.
3. The obsessive attention given by law enforcement in this city to pedestrians crossing against the traffic signal or at places other than intersections. This reinforces a notion that streets are not for people, but are for cars, people are relegated to specific areas outside the travelway, and that people cannot cross a street even when there is no opposing traffic. This denies people the sense of ownership of their streets. Jaywalking is probably illegal in every city in this country, but nowhere else have I seen it as vigorously enforced, and seen such submissive behavior on the part of pedestrians as I have in Seattle.

By: Alex Polen

Alex Polen — Sat, 14 Mar 2009 18:22:37 +0000

Sorry wrong web link above.
http://www.makeyourmarkmv.blogspot.com

By: Jen

Jen — Thu, 12 Mar 2009 06:29:52 +0000

I can’t wait to watch this project unfold! One of the many things I love most about Seattle is its many neighborhoods, each with their own character, shops, activities, and parks, lovely parks!… Kudos to everyone working together to make the City an even safer, healthier, more physically and socially connected place. I live in Eugene right now and a group here is in the very early stages of planning a similar street movement, a cyclovia, to experience streets without cars and connect our parks for a day.

By: Laurie

Laurie — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 04:24:23 +0000

I love Seattle and it has a great waterfront, but the Pikes market area is the only place I remember having pedestrian access to street space. The rest of the city was side walk and streets and not especially pedestrain friendly as I remember it from a few years ago. This sounds like a great initiative.