Walking in Seattle

Walking is a major means of transportation, exercise, and community interaction in Seattle. Walking in Seattle was created for all of us walkers in the city.

[Gordon Padelford @GordonOfSeattle]

“Walking makes us healthier, happier and more connected to our neighbors through spontaneous interactions. All of Seattle could become walkable with an ambitious Comprehensive Plan. We could build a city where everyone could walk to… daily necessities”

[Gordon Padelford @GordonOfSeattle]

"In Seattle, pedestrian deaths also rose steadily over the past few years: 14 in 2019, 15 in 2020, 23 in 2021 and 22 in 2022. McKechnie says key factors include city design, time of day, speeding and distracted driving."

[Gordon Padelford @GordonOfSeattle]

There is no excuse for speeding around a school bus that is unloading children. King County and Seattle need to fix this.

[Gordon Padelford @GordonOfSeattle]

Sickening. A few thoughts:
1) My heart breaks for her family.
2) Why was SPD responding at all to someone who "used too much cocaine?"
3) Does SPD policy allow driving 74 MPH for calls like this?
4) Why are Dexter/Thomas streets designed to allow for this type of deadly speed?

[Gordon Padelford @GordonOfSeattle]

If it were a building, SDCI would have condemned it.
If it were a job site, OSHA would have shut it down.
If it were an airline, the FHWA would have grounded it.
But Aurora is just the most dangerous street, so any safety fix change has to go through the Seattle Process.

[Bob Svercl @bobco85]

Doing the math, from 2022 to 2023 the length of the weekend closures has been reduced from 60 hours to 32 hours; that is almost a 50% cut in car-free time for a park.

For context, in 2022 the closures went from 7 pm Friday to 7 am Monday
#SEAbikes @seabikeblog @RVGreenways

[Gordon Padelford @GordonOfSeattle]

“Left turns at traffic lights cause 22% of car-pedestrian crashes in Seattle”
There are a variety of solutions (left turn phase arrow, hardened center lines) to make left turns safer for all, and we need to implement them.

[Gordon Padelford @GordonOfSeattle]

The latent demand for #accessibleLWB is massive. If we dedicated just half of the street to an accessible and family-friendly trail, this PARK would be the Alki, Burke Gilman, or Green Lake of the south end. https://t.co/YmXH4OvDZx

[The Stranger 🗞 @TheStranger]

"We did not beat COVID. We just accepted the economy was more important than the deaths it caused. The same goes for the permitted lawlessness of cars." | @mudede

https://t.co/Bs7baLBmw8

[Ethan C. Campbell @ethan2sea]

Automated enforcement cameras can be an effective tool for traffic safety.

But a new @seattledot analysis raises serious equity concerns that must be addressed before Seattle expands its camera program.

🧵⬇️ on my op-ed with Nura Ahmed in @SoSeaEmerald…
https://t.co/Kx7fonaJ9h

[Merlin Rainwater @merlinrain]

Along Madison where a woman was killed a couple days ago @seattledot has NO DETOUR for peds so people are walking IN TRAFFIC around construction. @Spottnik This is NOT OK! @SNGreenways @CSGreenways

[Gordon Padelford @GordonOfSeattle]

3 thoughts
#1 My heart goes out to this woman & I hope she makes a speedy recovery
#2 This crosswalk is designated to get major upgrades as part of Thomas St Redefined, which keeps getting delayed
#3 Another reason to move crash response and investigation out of SPD & into SDOT

[Councilmember Tammy J. Morales @CMTammyMorales]

This intersection has been the source of too many pedestrian injuries & fatalities. When talking to students at the nearby high school, almost every single one of them had a story about being yelled at by drivers while on a crosswalk or almost getting hit outright. Unacceptable.

[Gordon Padelford @GordonOfSeattle]

People🚶🏽‍♀️🧑🏼‍🦼👩🏻‍🦯 shouldn’t have to dodge traffic to cross the street only to get soaked trying to wait for the bus on Rainier Ave S

[Gordon Padelford @GordonOfSeattle]

It’s impossible to look at images of successful holiday markets from around the world and not think that we can do better than moving and storing cars on this street

[Greg Spotts @Spottnik]

😢 🛑 Please watch my narrated 90sec tour of Seattle locations where crashes have caused death or serious injury to pedestrians since 2004. Thank you @BFRyback for creating this visualization tool 🚶‍♀️