Posted on 05/01/2018 12:01:59 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
To all my Seattle FRiends,
HAPPY MAY DAY!
Agreed. And this is easy to do. Build sidewalks in urban and suburban areas and wide shoulders on rural roads. This should be considered part of the normal cost of the road.
In my neck of the woods, the first problem is roads where the original sidewalks and shoulders were long since taken to build more traffic lanes, and never replaced. This is cheating by the automotive lobby. The carheads should not be permitted to degrade other people's neighborhoods. Sidewalks are important for the people who live there, and motorists should come second. If your commute is too long, live closer to your job.
The second big problem is suburban communities where the developers saved money by not building sidewalks or adequate shoulders to begin with. This is just stupid. As the area grows and densifies, as young commuters get married and have kids, and as older residents age and retire, the need for non-vehicular mobility will inevitably emerge. It is relatively cheap to build sidewalks and shoulders at the front end. It becomes very difficult and expensive to retrofit that capacity in areas built with only cars in mind. 20 years later, people wake up and wonder, "what in the world were they thinking/"
The street up from ours is a long suburban street - about 5 blocks long with one “T” intersection going to a new development. The long street is older homes with no sidewalk. They are in the process of putting in a sidewalk on one side as it is a main road for the kids to walk to school which is at one end of the road.
Sidewalk, plus it looks like new and/or replacement pipes are going in as well. $1.56 million for 0.25 miles of upgrades.
I recall as a kid going on some highway in Colorado called “The Million Dollar Highway” - as it cost a million for every mile of road. And everyone thought THAT was expensive.
sadly, my dil and my son have to travel into Seattle for work...gladly, they live in a nearby county....sadly, I have to travel thru King county to go see them...
Seattle is a mystical place...Mt Rainer in the distance on a clear day is just stunning and you can also see the Olympics...
water everywhere...
why do leftists have to ruin everything they touch?...
the homeless should be booted out...period....
Seattle should just put them behind fences in a warehouse area..there's plenty of them around...
if these people want to live like dogs, let them...but not on city streets.
we REFUSE to use that lane because we refuse to pay the govt idiots MORE money for something we've already paid for and continue to pay for thru taxes...
once the pigs get a hold to a govt, its hard to kick them out...
Seattle Portland San Francisco, 3 most atheist cities in the US. The politics is just the symptom
No question about the beauty of the countryside and surrounding areas. It is the city of which I speak. I have a low tolerance level for Liberals. Seattle has a very interesting history. Obviously, it was not founded and built by Liberals.
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