Update: Shari comments on the “puzzling” report:
If this comment is addressing turning left onto Roosevelt from 88th St. heading south, I agree that someone is going to get hit. (A pedestrian light was installed last year at this intersection.) Since the bus stop has been taken away by the Snow Goose, cars park all the way down to the corner on Roosevelt to 88th. These parked cars block all sight lines for cars turning left onto Roosevelt or trying to cross Roosevelt. I sent an e-mail message to SDOT telling them of this hazard. I received a nice reply that something was going to be done, but there’s been no action.
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Since we wrote about the new neighborhood online map to report trouble spots in Maple Leaf, two new problems have surfaced.
Ray wants a red light to get pedestrians across Roosevelt Way Northeast at Northeast 92nd Street:
We desperately need a pedestrian light here. Many people attempt to cross Roosevelt at this intersection and it’s very very dangerous. The crossing flags simply do not cut it. Families attempting to cross are simply not seen by drivers.
Three other people have agreed with Ray that they “want this fixed.” Something is going to happen nearby. As we reported in April, a marked crosswalk is going in at Northeast 90th Street, between the Perkins School and Maple Leaf Ace Hardware.
There’s another complaint, too. But we can’t quite puzzle it out, unless it also deals with 92nd Street:
Making a turn onto Roosevelt coming from 8th is near impossible as cars park so close to the north west corner. With more and more traffic on Roosevelt from the bridge closure, someone is going to get hit. 9211 Roosevelt Way NE,Seattle,WA 98115,USA
Not to mention all the cars speeding down the Road in a residential neighborhood. It’s scary as a pedestrian or biker!
I wrote to the city probably a year ago about the hazard of turning left from 95th onto southbound Roosevelt. Delivery trucks for the cabinet shop park right up to the end of the block, COMPLETELY blocking all visibility. The city has done NOTHING.
Hope you don’t mind a comment from an outsider! I drop off one of my daughter’s friends on N. 88th frequently and intentionally avoid the left turn onto southbound Roosevelt. I go back to 15th even though it’s further from my final destination. SDOT needs to make the end of Roosevelt at that corner a no-parking area and/or make that a right-turn-only corner. It’s too dangerous and confusing.
I get it. Cars park so close to the intersections along both sides of Roosevelt that you have to creep and creep and creep out to try see around them to safely turn left or cross Roosevelt. This was hard before 15th closed. The worst is “helpful” elderly drivers who stop on Roosevelt and try to wave drivers across heading east or west. I hit someone who was “waved” into a left hand turn across two lanes at the top of a hill once. Funny, they didn’t hang around after the accident.