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The city finally responded and agreed to address the safety concerns along the boulevard. This outcome belongs entirely to the 238 people who refused to let these issues go unnoticed. I am just humbled that so many of you stepped up to push for a safer road.

September 26, 2013

City of Kirkland: NOTICE of Dangerous Conditions on Lake Washington Blvd / Lake St S: Duty to Cure and Prevent Known Unsafe  Conditions

City of Kirkland: NOTICE of Dangerous Conditions on Lake Washington Blvd / Lake St S: Duty to Cure and Prevent Known Unsafe Conditions

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Started by Karen Levenson 13 years, 2 months ago

This petition is being assembled to reitterate Notice of Dangerous Conditions along Lake Washington Blvd and Lake Street South.  These are conditions that the city is fully aware of, including excessive traffic and the conflicts with vehicular ingress and egress onto the boulevard between the Central Business District and Carillon Point.

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These are unsafe conditions that the city has both the power and the duty to correct. It is the belief of the citizens that the municipality has the responsibility to ensure that the roadways and ingress and egress points are planned, engineered and maintained for the safe use of its citizens and visitors to the city.

 

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We, the undersigned, provide the City of Kirkland with this notice to supplement letters and emails that have been sent over the past several years and which have included comments about the traffic, ingress/egress and safety concerns of the citizens and users of Lake St S / Lake Washington Blvd.

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We, the undersigned, provide the City of Kirkland with this notice to supplement videos and pictures provided to the city to demonstrate the traffic, ingress/egress and safety concerns of the citizens and users of Lake St S / Lake Washington Blvd.

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We, the undersigned, provide the City of Kirkland with this notice to supplement letters sent by neighbors to the City of Kirkland Police Department wherein reports of unsafe parking, traffic, illegal turning and ingress/egress conflicts have been reported and the city's attention to correct these conditions has been requested.

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We, the undersigned, provide the City of Kirkland with this notice to supplement testimony that has been given under oath by neighbors as to the extent of traffic and dangerous ingress and egress conditions along Lake Washington Blvd / Lake Stree South.

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We the undersigned, provide the City of Kirkland with this notice to supplement neighbor input and expertise in civil engineering, statistical and mathematical modeling and EIS expertise as it relates to faulty conclusions arising from poorly designed traffic studies and "Traffic Concurrency" methodology that does nothing to identify the hazards on Lake St S / Lake Washington Boulevard between downtown and Carillon Point.  Again, such testimony has also been entered under oath.

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We, the undersigned, feel that our prior emails, letters, pictures, videos and relevent expertise have been largely ignored and feel that we have provided sufficient evidence that the traffic studies used by the city are faulty and continue to allow dangerous conditions.  These have been clearly demonstrated.

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We request that the city act on this notice as you have the power and the duty to remedy these conditions prior to vehicular accident(s) occuring with another vehicle(s) or pedestrian(s), bicyclist(s), or other mishaps that will likely occur if these dangerous conditions are not corrected by the City of Kirkland.


Updates

July 9, 2013

I truly never imagined that so many people would join me in highlighting these safety concerns. This momentum belongs entirely to all of you who decided that our roads deserve better.

Reached 100 supporters

July 9, 2013

6 Comments

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Sarah Kennedy
13 years ago Featured

Kirkland needs to actually fix this before someone gets killed. It gets worse every summer.

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Jason Bennett
13 years ago Featured

Fix the traffic flow and put in proper lights. We have been complaining for years and nothing happens.

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Mike Lane
13 years ago Featured

Living right here is a nightmare. Trying to pull out onto the road is basically gambling with my car every single day.

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David Chopra
13 years ago Featured

Total disaster waiting to happen. The city just ignores us.

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Linda West
13 years ago Featured

Took me 15 minutes to turn left yesterday. Completely unacceptable for such a busy road.

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Karen Walsh
13 years ago Featured

SO DANGEROUS. I avoid that whole stretch now because the drivers are out of control and the layout makes no sense.