The hazardous Seattle intersection at Rainier Ave. S. & S. Dearborn continues to be an particularly hazardous put for pedestrians (and bicyclists) to properly cross with out staying struck by a auto.
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Vehicular traffic is incredibly dense, occasionally moving at higher speeds, and busiest during “peak” vacation time (identified as Hurry hour in other metropolitan areas). Vehicular traffic contains Metro buses, vans of all dimensions (like monumental semi-tractor trailer vans), vans, autos, SUV’s, motorcyclists, bicyclists.
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The Seattle Dept of Transportation’s key concentrate continues with Sustaining Vehicular Website traffic Flow (even nevertheless their have team admit that ALL WAY Walk pedestrian helpful sign light intersections preserve life. There are only 5 in the overall city of Seattle. They are much more commonly used in metropolitan areas in the east coast of the US than in Seattle, which is drowning in hazardous traffic).
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Pedestrians going for walks on Rainier Ave S and on S. Dearborn to the north, south, east and west by and through the intersection include moms and dads w/ toddlers, toddlers, small children youth-teens grown ups of all ages like seniors, aged, the disabled (in wheelchairs, w/ walkers, the blind, and many others) grown ups with carts, and many others.
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The Seattle Dept of Transportation has steadfastly refused to set up dazzling, significant and noticeable PED – Bicycle CROSSING SIGNAGE – esp needed for south sure motorists on Rainier Ave S:
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Several motorists hurtle through purple sign lights (very well right after the sign light has turned purple) to make proper turns onto Dearborn.
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The chaotic pedestrian traffic contains purchasers heading to and from the substantial Goodwill store 1 block west of Rainier Ave S, on Dearborn.
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King County Metro has manufactured matters far worse by lately removing the southbound bus end on Rainier Ave So. that was promptly north of Dearborn. This is a serious inconvenience now for bus commuters, esp seniors, the aged, the disabled, moms and dads w/ younger small children, and many others.
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Please make contact with Seattle Mayor Ed Murray:
https://www.seattle.gov/mayor/get-associated/make contact with-the-mayor
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Please make contact with King County Metro and urge the reinstatment of the southbound bus end on Rainier Ave So. just north of Dearborn:
https://blue.kingcounty.gov/about/make contact with/
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Urge viewers to make contact with Metro King County and desire that they style and design the Metro web site text working with readable, available and consumer-helpful black, higher contrast sort.
Their latest use of tough-to-browse (at ideal) to unreadable (at worst) light-worth gray and light worth blue sort is incredibly stylish but is disrespectful to the public. It disenfranchises hundreds of hundreds of net consumers in the Tri-County region:
https://metro.kingcounty.gov/
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Please stop by and LIKE click this Fb site and do a basic matter to aid preserve the life and limbs of pedestrians in Seattle with an uncomplicated-to-do action by basically LIKE clicking the site:
Seattle campaign for pedestrian harmless “All cross-walk” intersections
https://www.facebook.com/Seattle-Marketing campaign-for-Pedestrian-Risk-free-All-CrossWalk-Intersections-238913312877647/?fref=ts
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Many thanks.
Post time: Dec-14-2016