Results tagged “crosswalks”

Any of you chickens who have been trying to cross the street will be glad to know the City of Seattle released its Pedestrian Master Plan, which answers the timeless question of how you will cross the street. The answer will involve spending $60 million over the next six years for Segways for all fancy crosswalks, raised sidewalks, warning signs, traffic lights, and police to provide $46 jaywalking citations (don't get us started). Crossing the street is one thing, but playing a mean game of Frogger by dodging cars in order to safely cross the streets, that's a whole other issue--we're not squawking that something's being done.

The other day on a walk up 40th in Wallingford, we noticed that the crossing flags at 40th and Sunnyside were in search of an adopter. There was a little sign up next to the flag bucket that we took a picture of, but, you know, cameraphone at night...it's not that visible. It said something like, "Adopt this intersection--email CrossingFlags@gmail.com." We emailed to determine what, exactly, adopting crossing flags entailed--because the flags in Wallingford are starting to mature and we're not prepared for the teen years--and it turns out you just buy new flags ($1.62 a pop) every once in a while to replace the flags lost to attrition (or attempt to get the city to put flags there, although that way madness lies).

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• WaMu really can't catch a break. The Belltowner and PhinneyWood report that their neighborhood WaMu branches were robbed over the weekend.
• Mid Beacon Hill explores "cheap South End fun," including a place that should be on the hipster street-of-dreams, and the Museum of Communications. Being a tourist in your own city is totally fun, so the idea of being a tourist in your own neighborhood strikes us as completely delightful.
• So that's why we didn't have power on Saturday night in the CD. Of course, since we had no power we couldn't log on to check Central District News for updates, but it's nice to know now.