Tag: guerrilla crosswalks

December 1, 2022

Bloomberg: Olive Way crosswalk showed ‘how needlessly difficult it is to build safer streets’

There you go SDOT, something more in line with your policy pic.twitter.com/PBZibVAofZ — Hamza (@hummusqueso) November 20, 2022 The crosswalk at Harvard and Olive Way is gone, but it left an impression on more than just the roadway itself. The social media storm following SDOT’s decision to remove it (and their clumsy response explaining themselves)…
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tagged: bloomberg, david zipper, dongho chang, guerrilla crosswalks
November 16, 2022

To learn how to respond to community-created crosswalks, SDOT should look to their own past

In the dead of night in early April 2013, one First Hill resident dragged $350 worth of reflective plastic posts down the hill and glued them on top of the brand new bike lane line SDOT had painted on Cherry Street under I-5. He then went home and wrote an email to Seattle Bike Blog…
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tagged: capitol hill, guerrilla crosswalks, olive way, sdot