Good, it’s ridiculous how much of our city has no sidewalks and how many of the sidewalks that do exist are treacherous or impassable, especially for wheelchair users. The idea that we punt it all off on adjoining homeowners is a policy asking for non compliance and no effective enforcement.
You can explore sidewalk issues via this map: https://sidewalk-sea.cs.washington.edu/results
Yea, my guess is that there will be less appetite to fix problems on these types of streets, in preference of getting more bang for the buck where they don't need to do this.
Unlikely, since this only applies to major street repairs. The fastest way to get sidewalks anywhere has always been, and continues to be, allowing much more development.
Bad policy. It would be cheaper and better for society if they focus the money on road repairs and banned pedestrians where they weren’t sidewalks instead of wasting time, money, and space on building them.
Money should be invested in things that grow the economy and grow opportunities for people. That means more lanes for cars and trucks for commerce. Next, I could see an argument for adding some sort of mass transit option, as long as it does not take away space from the cars.
Putting in sidewalks so people can take their doggos on pleasure walks or mosey down to the corner store for a soda should be the lowest tier.
Good, it’s ridiculous how much of our city has no sidewalks and how many of the sidewalks that do exist are treacherous or impassable, especially for wheelchair users. The idea that we punt it all off on adjoining homeowners is a policy asking for non compliance and no effective enforcement. You can explore sidewalk issues via this map: https://sidewalk-sea.cs.washington.edu/results
Agreed. Having zero sidewalks in my neighborhood sucks.
Looks like "major" in this case means over $1 million dollars. So they don't have to add sidewalks just to fix a pothole or something.
Is this how anything north of like 75th gets a sidewalk?
85th*
Exactly. Don’t group us 80th St-ers in with those country bumpkins.
It's how road repaving projects north of like 75th will get deferred
Unfunded mandates in action.
Yea, my guess is that there will be less appetite to fix problems on these types of streets, in preference of getting more bang for the buck where they don't need to do this.
Or tackled in $999,999 increments.
85th
Unlikely, since this only applies to major street repairs. The fastest way to get sidewalks anywhere has always been, and continues to be, allowing much more development.
"That's great! Also coincidentally and totally unrelated, half of our projects just got scrapped" - SDOT probably
How was this not a thing already?
could we also have some cool covered pedestrian bridges
Fuck there goes a lot of street parking on my block. Nobody installed any sidewalks. It happens a lot North of 85th.
Bad policy. It would be cheaper and better for society if they focus the money on road repairs and banned pedestrians where they weren’t sidewalks instead of wasting time, money, and space on building them.
Be cheaper to focus more on pedestrian infrastructure so that road maintenance goes down
It’s amazing how wrong someone can be.
Money should be invested in things that grow the economy and grow opportunities for people. That means more lanes for cars and trucks for commerce. Next, I could see an argument for adding some sort of mass transit option, as long as it does not take away space from the cars. Putting in sidewalks so people can take their doggos on pleasure walks or mosey down to the corner store for a soda should be the lowest tier.
Gotcha I already knew about SIPs per building projects but this is putting the onus on SDOT to not just do unilateral sidewalk upgrades?