A raft of large, new street projects will be announced Wednesday evening, the mayor’s office has announced.
Please join Mayor Mike McGinn, City Councilmember Tom Rasmussen, and community members for an announcement of the list of Neighborhood Street Fund Large Projects to be funded and built in 2010-2012. These projects directly reflect neighborhoods’ desires for improvements that support walking, biking, and transit. Each three year cycle, Bridging the Gap helps build approximately $4.5 million in community nominated large projects throughout Seattle.
The announcement is set for 6:30 p.m. just outside Maple Leaf. The e-mail from the mayor’s office says it’s at Ravenna Avenue Northeast and 90th Avenue Northeast, but doesn’t name the location. It’s not on the mayor’s or Rasmussen’s calendars, either.
Correction, 4:30 p.m.: The mayor’s office has now corrected the location to Northeast 90th Street and Ravenna. And the announcement will be al fresco.
They’re building a lot of really cheap excuses for sidewalks with the neighborhood street fund. It’s not prudent. They won’t last.
SDOT should stop building sidewalks or designing them. Poles in sidewalks, asphalt in lieu of long term solutions and even giving up pieces of the right of way in favor of attaching sidewalks to the curb therefore giving away 10′ of our land that should be between the curb and the sidewalk.
Somebody needs to monitor this nonsense.