Tag: ne 125th
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No, SDOT does not need more 125th studies
Let’s make this clear, yet again. NE 125th carries a little over 16,000 cars per day. SDOT’s experience and research clearly shows that the proposed three-lane configuration can carry up to 25,000 vehicles per day. They have done similar projects on similar streets a couple dozen times in recent decades. No further study is necessary.…
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KUOW takes on ‘road diets’
KUOW Weekday took on road diets this morning (listen here). Eric Widstrand from SDOT was on to defend the road diet projects, focusing mostly on Nickerson, from the fears of residents and so-called business representatives. The same old arguments came out, as you would expect. However, the conversation was steered to the facts and evidence,…
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Times columnist takes some of her claims back
Well, I am glad to see that, in her newest column, Nicole Brodeur has taken back many of the unfounded and unresearched claims she made in her previous column. First, she apologizes for attacking the mayor when the project was already moving before he even took office. However, she defends calling him “Mayor McSchwinn,” which…
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SDOT calls bull on claims they had no outreach for 125th changes
In response to claims by opponents to the proposed changes to NE 125th that SDOT did not attempt to alert any residents about the project, the department put out the following list of outreach efforts on their blog:
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Nicole Brodeur supports NE 125th changes (but she thinks she doesn’t)
Nicole Brodeur at the Times agrees with the proposed changes to NE 125th, she just doesn’t realize it. She also doesn’t do her homework. First, she spends several paragraphs in her Monday column suggesting that the plans are just “Mayor McSchwinn” pushing his pro-bike agenda, despite the fact that her own paper reported days ago…
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To people worried about changes to NE 125th: Take the Greenwood Ave challenge
An article in the Seattle Times Saturday has struck up the same old anti-traffic calming arguments, framing the project as a bikes vs car project. In the piece, residents express fears of doom and congestion, despite ample evidence from the city’s previous 26 or so similar projects that have proven, over and over, to be…
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