August 4

iPods, joy riders, guitars, Google maps – news from the neighbors

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News from Maple Leaf neighbors:

1) Lost an iPod? Call or email the folks above.

2) Zack posts on our Facebook wall a little before 10:30 a.m. today:  “Spotted the Google Maps car in Maple Leaf today. Last seen at 80th & 4th Ave NE. Smile for the camera!”

3) Also on our Facebook wall, Kendra posts: “Ginny Reilly’s (of Reilly and Maloney singing fame) Gallagher acoustic guitar was stolen from her North Seattle residence on the afternoon of Saturday, July 30.

“The guitar is a ‘71 Special’ model, serial # 1032. It was in a soft black canvas ‘gig bag’ case with a black iron-on patch inside, facing the neck toward the upper end. This has been Ginny’s main performance instrument for over 30 years, and we are devastated by its loss.

“With only ~3,600 Gallagher guitars in circulation anywhere, these instruments are unique, noticeable, and rare.  Any/all leads welcome: reillyandmaloney@comcast.net.”

4) And finally, Arya emails today: “Yesterday at about 7 or 8, a BMW 5 series (e61) came roaring up 89th street. They crossed the 17th street intersection with enough speed (50 mph +) to completely leave the ground, bottom out at the other side of the intersection. They left a lot of car parts on the scene: Transmission/ oil pan cooling fins and a fender/light cowling (which had part numbers that I used to identify the model)

The car had all the windows down, and had 4 young men laughing (all shirtless, maybe one wife beater amongst them).They stopped at the top of the hill (near 15th) the driver got out, looked at rear bumper, then got back in and drove off.

I guess I bring this up for 2 reasons:

One: Maybe that car was stolen, I could probably identify the driver. Know of any stolen BMWs?

Two: The 17th and 89th st intersection is dangerous due to people flying though in both directions at speed w/o stopping to check for cross traffic.

There is no traffic circle or any speed bumps here, and I’m told by neighbors that there have been many collisions over the years.

There are a lot of children on bikes who ride here daily, and I don’t think it is unlikely that some is going to get hurt.

Think you could use help us get some traffic management done here? Requests with the city don’t seem to get us anywhere.

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  1. I live about a block away and have often noticed drivers going WAY to fast up the hill as well. I’d be happy to provide my input to the city. Please let me know what I can do…..

  2. The only way to get the city to do traffic mitigation on your street is to get at least 10 neighbors on the affected street to start pestering SDOT and the Mayor’s Office about it. You’ll need to send e-mails once a week for about a year, maybe with two or three phone calls, for the city to agree to fund a traffic study. I’m seriously, incidentally: 10 e-mails a week for a year should do it.

    After the results of the study come back, all 10 of you will need to continue sending e-mail to SDOT and the Mayor’s Office once a week for another year before they agree to fund the traffic mitigation that the study recommended. Again, I’m serious.

    The way rich people get money devoted to their traffic problems in their neighborhoods is they donate to politcal campaigns and/or know council members and/or people in SDOT. So if anyone has deep pockets or connections, that would be a faster way to go.

  3. I bet it was the BMW hood-rats on 25th NE just north of 65th. They play parking musical chairs all day every day with their random condition/model BMWs due to the parking regs on 25th. Often find them doing hot-laps through the hood as well.

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