12th Avenue Northeast at Northeast 98th Street this afternoon.
The eight-hour local street closures we wrote about last week have begun.
For more details see map below, or follow link, above.
August 24
Street closures for “microsurfacing” have begun
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Judging from the direction resident’s cars are parked on NE 103rd in the area between Roosevelt and 8th, it appears most of them are ignoring the Do Not Enter signs because “they live there” and don’t feel the requirement to enter off of 8th applies to them.
Speaking of cut through traffic, NE 105th is a single lane ten feet wide that crosses the creek with no railings, no pedestrian/vehicle separation, a curving culvert for a walkway and a blulkhead for cars to crash into.
Let’s make it a one way street, opposite the direction of NE 103rd, or reopen NE 103rd to two way traffic, with sidewalks.
Before we spend millions on a sidewalk on NE 103rd east of 5th Ave NE, let’s perhaps spend a few dollars on enforcement of the “Do Not Enter” sign for eastbound vehicle travel midblock. That sign is routinely, regularly, constantly ignored by vehicles heading eastbound up the hill on NE 103rd, which only increases the cut-through traffic on the non-arterials, reducing the safety of pedestrians in the area on those non-arterial streets.
Are pedestrian-vehicle interactions a big problem on 103rd? If so, we should fix the drivers instead of spending millions on sidewalks. It’s far cheaper and has wider reaching benefits.
Sidewalks play an important role in transportation, as they provide a safe path for people to walk along that is separated from the motorized traffic. They aid road safety by minimizing interaction between pedestrians and motorized traffic.
Randall, I walked to the transit center today (and do every day) to catch a bus. Only had sidewalks on a portion of it and I’m not sure why I’d need a sidewalk on the other portion.
Tim, a sidewalk is what you walk on to get away from drivers like you.
On a good point, the police will have nice new road surfaces to not drive on.
What exactly does a sidewalk do for you?
And on to Roosevelt. Oops.
Its paving. Now for a sidewalk between 5th NE and 8th NE on NE 103rd.
It will last longer but it looks like $#@% and drives like $#%! way to go SDOT hope your proud to put your name on it. I wouldn’t be.. Unacceptable job!!
It’s great they’re doing this – I expect we’ll get more response to neighborhood concerns now that we have district elections.
Sure beats spending tax dollars on big chucks of earth eating metal stuck deep below the bowels of the city. Woohoo. Even beats 71 million dollars above budget and behind schedule seawalls. Not that they are over schedule and over budget on this.