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Meanwhile most streets in Seattle north of N 85th St still don't have sidewalks at all. The estimated cost to add them is in the billions of dollars.
by xxpor 6y ago
Meanwhile most streets in Seattle north of N 85th St still don't have sidewalks at all. The estimated cost to add them is in the billions of dollars.
- mikestew 6y agoDifferent agency, but meanwhile King County is spending money to pave a "rails-to-trails" path near Redmond (along Willows Rd. for you locals) that I run on regularly. Until the virus thing, I have never seen another human being use the quite usable gravel trail that's there now. Probably because it's out-of-the-way, no place to park, and it parallels a major paved trail that is less than a mile away. But I'm sure someone's brother-in-law needs a paving contract.
- bpodgursky 6y agoI live here, and while yeah I would sorta kinda have preferred the sidewalks from the start, I have no interest in ripping up peoples' front yards to retrofit them in. What Seattle is doing now (making a lot of streets limited-access) is way better for pedestrians than a slow, expensive, abortive sidewalk-building-and-street-reconstructing campaign.