The City finally stopped stalling and the crews are out on 61st Avenue installing those speed bumps we fought for. It is a long overdue victory against their incompetence. Keep your eyes peeled to make sure the work is actually finished correctly.
August 23, 2020
Final supporters
Petition to the City of Seattle Regarding Excessive Traffic Speed, Volume and Noise on the Portion of 61st Avenue SW Designated as Residential
As residents living along the designated residential corridor in the blocks of 3200, 3400 and 3600 of 61st Avenue SW (between SW Admiral Way and Beach Drive SW), we are calling on the City of Seattle to fulfill its obligation and work with us to implement this summer the traffic calming and safety measures awarded through the 2019 Your Voice, Your Choice Program.
As residents of this neighborhood we have petitioned the City many times over the years to address this problem. In response the City has conducted a variety of studies in 1992, 1999, 2005 and most recently in 2019. Each time, the City has confirmed that both speed and traffic volumes far exceed acceptable residential limits, but has taken no action to remedy the situation.
So we took on the task of participating in the 2019 Your Voice, Your Choice Program and were awarded one of the four District 1 winning project spots. These projects were included in the appropriate Seattle Departmental Budgets for 2020 implementation.
Our project line item was:
Alki: Calming Improvements on 61st Avenue SW between SW Admiral Way and Beach Drive SW (Cost: $30,000). Resolution will include the installation of 5 speed bumps and appropriate signage.
The neighborhood felt like FINALLY something was really going to happen, and that the City would finally address the long-standing safety issue. Then Covid19 struck, and we were notified that the traffic calming speed humps will not be installed this summer, if ever, due to lack of funding and manpower.
Now the City has exacerbated the problem, as nearby sections of Beach Drive SW and Alki Avenue SW were included in the City’s Safe Healthy Streets Program. While we love the newfound quiet and safety as we walk along that section of the beach, that closure has funneled even more traffic to endanger us in our neighborhood by increasing the volume on our street. Recent warmer days have drawn revelers to the beach for a taste of summer, and as a direct result, the safety of pedestrians, bicyclists and many motorists along our street is being challenged even more frequently by increased heavy traffic and speeding vehicles. The City needs to move forward on our project – NOW.
We’re aware of the City’s financial challenges brought about by the Covid19 Pandemic and the long overdue calls for Racial Justice and Social Reform, but feel that our safety and the safety of our visitors is equally important. This is a longstanding issue and had the City addressed it at one of the times it was previously brought to your attention this problem would have been solved, instead of being made worse.
Many of us in the neighborhood are more than willing to offer assistance to reduce the use of City Personnel Resources. We will volunteer as Flaggers or similar Traffic Control Workers to whatever extent is possible. We will put up road closure signs. We stand ready to assist in redirecting traffic on the day that speed bumps and signage are FINALLY put into place to rectify this longstanding problem.
In summary, we’re calling upon the City of Seattle to fulfill its commitment as awarded through the Your Voice, Your Choice Program and find a way to get the budgeted Traffic Calming Improvements on 61st Avenue SW installed in the next few months. The safety of our family members, our neighbors, and guests from all over the city is in your hands.
Please don’t overlook our needs and let us down YET AGAIN!
Updates
June 27, 2020
The City of Seattle continues to ignore their own promises while our streets remain dangerous. This surge in support proves they cannot hide from their failures anymore.
Reached 100 supporters
June 27, 2020
34 Comments
I would urge the city to follow through with the approved traffic calming measures as 61st Ave SW is a very busy corridor for walkers, runners and bicyclists as well as children on their way from Alki Elementary to the care program at Alki UCC. This road was not designed for the volume of traffic that passes through here each day, often at excessive speeds, let alone share the corridor with others on foot. The city has mandated reduced speeds to 25mph to save lives as part of Vision Zero yet cars travel through here at speeds in excess of that. Add in the blindspots created by the roundabouts and the situation becomes all the more dangerous. Please give us the speed bumps as we have no other option than to designate it as a "Stay Healthy Street" - literally!
This way overdue! The tendency for motorists to cutoff the wider and limited access arterial Beach Dr/63rd to zoom through a few blocks of the much narrower 61st Ave has challenged pedestrian safety for way too long!!
Keep our streets safe! I am mother to 2 small children and I am scared to death of speeders who go way to fast down this road, and dont even slow down at unmarked intersections that are heavily used by pedestrians.
There are 2-3 block long sections making up 61st Ave. SW without cross streets or speed controls. This allows cars to reach speeds well beyond what is legal on residential streets in Seattle (see the multiple petition studies done over the years on speed/volume). We need to slow these cars down with the increased number of bicyclists using this residential street. Backing out of our driveway has become extremely dangerous with the speeds these cars travel. Please fulfill your agreement to make 61st Ave. SW a safe City residential street... for everyone that visits Alki.
Being a resident of 61st Ave. SW since 1974 I've witnessed accidents, excessive speeds & increasing volumes that are equal to arterial streets in Seattle. Multiple times the City has made an effort to make changes to slow/reduce volume on 61st SW only to have it shelved for no reason given. Now after years of failures by the City we win a chance to make that change, only to hear that other residential streets will get the benefit in dollars spent at our cost. We deserve better! The City needs to step up and make 61st on Alki safe for bicycles, pedestrians and its residents. Perhaps the City should just close 61st Ave. SW as it seems to be a no cost alternative .
Please increase the safety along this street.
We need a safer street for everyone. Slowing down the faster cars, will surely help. Pedestrians find it very difficult to cross the street at the Hinds and 61st round-about, because it doesn’t do enough to slow the cars. More is needed; please hurry and get the work done.
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The City finally stopped stalling and the crews are out on 61st Avenue installing those speed bumps we fought for. It is a long overdue victory against their incompetence. Keep your eyes peeled to make sure the work is actually finished correctly.
August 23, 2020
Final supporters
Petition to the City of Seattle Regarding Excessive Traffic Speed, Volume and Noise on the Portion of 61st Avenue SW Designated as Residential
As residents living along the designated residential corridor in the blocks of 3200, 3400 and 3600 of 61st Avenue SW (between SW Admiral Way and Beach Drive SW), we are calling on the City of Seattle to fulfill its obligation and work with us to implement this summer the traffic calming and safety measures awarded through the 2019 Your Voice, Your Choice Program.
As residents of this neighborhood we have petitioned the City many times over the years to address this problem. In response the City has conducted a variety of studies in 1992, 1999, 2005 and most recently in 2019. Each time, the City has confirmed that both speed and traffic volumes far exceed acceptable residential limits, but has taken no action to remedy the situation.
So we took on the task of participating in the 2019 Your Voice, Your Choice Program and were awarded one of the four District 1 winning project spots. These projects were included in the appropriate Seattle Departmental Budgets for 2020 implementation.
Our project line item was:
Alki: Calming Improvements on 61st Avenue SW between SW Admiral Way and Beach Drive SW (Cost: $30,000). Resolution will include the installation of 5 speed bumps and appropriate signage.
The neighborhood felt like FINALLY something was really going to happen, and that the City would finally address the long-standing safety issue. Then Covid19 struck, and we were notified that the traffic calming speed humps will not be installed this summer, if ever, due to lack of funding and manpower.
Now the City has exacerbated the problem, as nearby sections of Beach Drive SW and Alki Avenue SW were included in the City’s Safe Healthy Streets Program. While we love the newfound quiet and safety as we walk along that section of the beach, that closure has funneled even more traffic to endanger us in our neighborhood by increasing the volume on our street. Recent warmer days have drawn revelers to the beach for a taste of summer, and as a direct result, the safety of pedestrians, bicyclists and many motorists along our street is being challenged even more frequently by increased heavy traffic and speeding vehicles. The City needs to move forward on our project – NOW.
We’re aware of the City’s financial challenges brought about by the Covid19 Pandemic and the long overdue calls for Racial Justice and Social Reform, but feel that our safety and the safety of our visitors is equally important. This is a longstanding issue and had the City addressed it at one of the times it was previously brought to your attention this problem would have been solved, instead of being made worse.
Many of us in the neighborhood are more than willing to offer assistance to reduce the use of City Personnel Resources. We will volunteer as Flaggers or similar Traffic Control Workers to whatever extent is possible. We will put up road closure signs. We stand ready to assist in redirecting traffic on the day that speed bumps and signage are FINALLY put into place to rectify this longstanding problem.
In summary, we’re calling upon the City of Seattle to fulfill its commitment as awarded through the Your Voice, Your Choice Program and find a way to get the budgeted Traffic Calming Improvements on 61st Avenue SW installed in the next few months. The safety of our family members, our neighbors, and guests from all over the city is in your hands.
Please don’t overlook our needs and let us down YET AGAIN!
Updates
June 27, 2020
The City of Seattle continues to ignore their own promises while our streets remain dangerous. This surge in support proves they cannot hide from their failures anymore.
Reached 100 supporters
June 27, 2020
34 Comments
This traffic calming project definitely needs implementing. The neighbors and residents are willing to help the city with their volunteer hours in the extraordinary financial hits we have taken during the CoVid crisis. Please keep your commitment and fund these traffic calming improvements on 61st Ave SW. thank you
I would urge the city to follow through with the approved traffic calming measures as 61st Ave SW is a very busy corridor for walkers, runners and bicyclists as well as children on their way from Alki Elementary to the care program at Alki UCC. This road was not designed for the volume of traffic that passes through here each day, often at excessive speeds, let alone share the corridor with others on foot. The city has mandated reduced speeds to 25mph to save lives as part of Vision Zero yet cars travel through here at speeds in excess of that. Add in the blindspots created by the roundabouts and the situation becomes all the more dangerous. Please give us the speed bumps as we have no other option than to designate it as a "Stay Healthy Street" - literally!
This way overdue! The tendency for motorists to cutoff the wider and limited access arterial Beach Dr/63rd to zoom through a few blocks of the much narrower 61st Ave has challenged pedestrian safety for way too long!!
Keep our streets safe! I am mother to 2 small children and I am scared to death of speeders who go way to fast down this road, and dont even slow down at unmarked intersections that are heavily used by pedestrians.
There are 2-3 block long sections making up 61st Ave. SW without cross streets or speed controls. This allows cars to reach speeds well beyond what is legal on residential streets in Seattle (see the multiple petition studies done over the years on speed/volume). We need to slow these cars down with the increased number of bicyclists using this residential street. Backing out of our driveway has become extremely dangerous with the speeds these cars travel. Please fulfill your agreement to make 61st Ave. SW a safe City residential street... for everyone that visits Alki.
Being a resident of 61st Ave. SW since 1974 I've witnessed accidents, excessive speeds & increasing volumes that are equal to arterial streets in Seattle. Multiple times the City has made an effort to make changes to slow/reduce volume on 61st SW only to have it shelved for no reason given. Now after years of failures by the City we win a chance to make that change, only to hear that other residential streets will get the benefit in dollars spent at our cost. We deserve better! The City needs to step up and make 61st on Alki safe for bicycles, pedestrians and its residents. Perhaps the City should just close 61st Ave. SW as it seems to be a no cost alternative .
Please increase the safety along this street.
We need a safer street for everyone. Slowing down the faster cars, will surely help. Pedestrians find it very difficult to cross the street at the Hinds and 61st round-about, because it doesn’t do enough to slow the cars. More is needed; please hurry and get the work done.
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This traffic calming project definitely needs implementing. The neighbors and residents are willing to help the city with their volunteer hours in the extraordinary financial hits we have taken during the CoVid crisis. Please keep your commitment and fund these traffic calming improvements on 61st Ave SW. thank you