Runaway Shopping Carts Plague Bellevue Streets

"Safeway Cart" by the print, via the Seattlest Flickr pool.

The City of Bellevue and local residents have had it with the excessive amount of retailers' shopping carts strewn across city bus stops, streets, vacant parking lots, and don't even get them started about the dizz-asterous collection found at Crossroads Shopping Center. While some retailers do attempt to corral the runaways, other shrug their shoulders without the means or capabilities to collect the transient shopping carts.

Having dealt with rogue cart issues since 2006, the Bellevue city council is expect to decide tonight on a proposal that will fine delinquent retail stores who do not collect their abandoned carts. Now if only people would stop stealing them (p.s. stealing a cart is a misdemeanor), we wouldn't have this problem, now would we?

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By Kim P. in News on July 6, 2009 3:00 PM

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sevenless

Wow, Seattlest and the Bellevue city council know how to push your buttons don't they? You read the other press releases for that day, right? You know including that one about the council voting to accept stimulus money to improve an adult day care center and fix up some low and moderate income homes that need repairs?

romulus

Things must be AWESOME in the burbs if the city councils have NOTHING better to improve about their cities than shopping carts.

Poverty, homelessness, unemployment, foreclosure, accidents, violent crime, distressed properties, fires -- all fucking GONE in Seattle's awesome suburbs. After you've SOLVED all those nagging problems, the only thing LEFT to tackle are shopping carts!

Or, perhaps, the city councils of these suburbs are sheltered, clueless, ineffective out-of-touch demagogues desperate for something to make it look like they do something useful. Your guess is as good as mine.

thename

Wait, Bellevue—that beacon of walkability—is having this problem? I thought that kind of thing was restricted to low-class cities like Seattle!