Eliminating parking is going to create and congested and dangerous road. People
With special needs or elderly need to be able to access business with convenient parking. Focus should be on improving the crosswalks and lack of designated left turn turn lanes.
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Theresa Larkin
8 years ago
As a frequent biker and driver in this neighborhood, I think it's best we spend more time and effort educating people on bike safety (for cyclists and drivers) and the available routes cyclists already have such as the greenway and Burke Gilman Trail. One of my favorite things about living in this area is the amount of parking and cycling options we have. Parking is critical for the small businesses in the area to succeed and as a frequent biker, I think cyclists already have many viable options to stay safe in the neighborhood. Loosing an entire side's worth of parking would be a shame and would hurt the surrounding residential streets because people would be forced to park there instead.
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Anne Phyfe Palmer
8 years ago
Please reconsider the plans to remove parking and convert those lanes to bicycle lanes on 35th in the Wedgwood neighborhood. As a dedicated cyclist, and neighbor, I appreciate the desire to create dedicated bike lanes, but I hope that you all will consider other options to preserve the ability of this limited retail core to serve disabled and elderly clients. This neighborhood has the Burke Gilman, which is the safest way to bicycle in this city! Please reconsider!
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Michael L Welch
8 years ago
The city's bicycle plan is an illustration of the tyranny of the special interest bicycle minority in Seattle. They have bicycle greenway on 38th/39th NE. This proposed change is not needed and a waste of taxpayer's money.
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Alfred Runte
8 years ago
SDOT is out of its mind, as is our duly elected district representative on the City Council, the Honorable Rob Johnson. It's time for some sweeping changes in both areas of city government.
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Peter J Dorsette
8 years ago
This will also make it less safe and more difficult for residents who live on 35th Ave NE to get in and out of their driveways.
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Carol Zarek
8 years ago
Businesses need access by people and this directly affects them. The Bike lanes are not needed.
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VIRGINIA STORTS
8 years ago
This will hurt businesses and the cyclists themselves. Why can't we make bike lanes on side streets.? The results of the studies coming out of New York on the effects on cyclists breathing all that polluted air are not pretty.
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Mary Davis
8 years ago
What a bottleneck this will cause!
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Emanuel Jacobowitz
8 years ago
Enough already.
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Peter Hiatt
8 years ago
There are alternatives to taking lanes of traffic away and giving them to a few people who rarely use the new lanes.
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Eric Rising
8 years ago
Please sign this and pass on. We need to make the street safer for people walking in the area. Bikes have other options.
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Anonymous
8 years ago
I'm an avid bicyclist and drive my car on 35th daily. SDOT need to really start thinking about what is common sense. We need to promote using the existing protected routes like the 39th greenway that are already in place. You would have to be stupid or righteous to take 35th on a bike. SDOT could not even get the last concrete panel and new curbs between 65 and 47th right. If they had actually measured for the east & west side parking and two lanes with maybe a mild widening of 12-18" it would prevent motorists ripping of other parked cars mirrors for the last few years. Was that a safe design by SDOT? Clearly not, now they want to put bicyclists in harms way on 35th. How about educating the public about safer pathways like 39th and save lives. You can drop over to 39th from 35th which takes two minutes and have an easy low traffic ride to the BG. It a great relaxing ride and currently in place. I give two thumbs up to the current greenway paths! Two down on the current plan to reduce lanes for cars on 35th!
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Joan Lite Miller
8 years ago
I am signing this petition to support my Ravenna Bryant neighborhood, where I have lived for over 30 years. We need the street parking that currently exists! I support the small businesses lining our streets, my neighbors who go to the library and park on the street, the synagogue and church goers who attend and park nearby. I advocate that our streets remain as they are and not change to the dangerous plan that has been drawn up.
Joan Lite Miller
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Anonymous
8 years ago
There is no need for a bike lane on 35th! It’s already congested enough!
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Mati V Sakya
8 years ago
Not Smart
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Chauncey Bell
8 years ago
I am 73 years old, and my wife is 70. We live on 39th Ave NE between 62nd and 65th; our street is dedicated (nicely) to bicycle traffic. Neither of us can ride bicycles in the neighborhood. The plan SDOT has imagined for 35th Ave NE has come out of the heads of people who do not live in the neighborhood, and is bad news for us. Please stop it.
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rob snyder
8 years ago
Stop the war on bikes! This plan looks like it is pro-bike but it is not supported by any bikers I know.
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Alan Rodan
8 years ago
No More Bike Lanes for NE Seattle!
The project to create bike lanes on 35th Avenue NE is not well thought out! Lets look at ALL the facts:
* There are already designated bike lanes within 5 blocks, alternating between 38th Avenue NE and 39th Avenue NE.
* Cutting parking by 60% on 35th Avenue NE and, at the same time, rezoning to allow multifamily housing with minimal on-site parking adds to an already dire situation. This plan will force more parking into surrounding neighborhoods, many with no sidewalks, taking away what little walking space there is on the road shoulders, forcing pedestrians to walk in the MIDDLE of the street, joining the drivers looking for parking!
* The bike lanes are planned between the parking lane and the curb, with driveways into major businesses like Safeway crossing them. This creates many new problems: 1) it gives cyclists a false sense of safety as driver's line of site is potentially blocked by parked vehicles; 2) while drivers are used to looking before opening doors, passengers on the right side of cars are not, creating hazards for both passengers and riders; 3) passengers will have to step down and additional 4 inches, cross a bike lane, and then step back up, which for elderly people can be difficult as well as dangerous. Furthermore, there will not be wheelchair cuts mid block, which means anyone getting out of a car into a wheelchair will have to be walked to a corner or pulled up over a curb, which defeats the intent of the ADA putting in ramps at sidewalk corners.
* The plan calls for doing away with some bus stops to help alleviate congestion and keep the buses on schedule. This will force people, including the elderly and disabled to have to walk farther to bus stops. It makes far more sense to have the comparatively few, and, incidentally, very able bodied bike riders ride a couple of extra blocks to 38th/39th.
* Population around the US, as well as in this area is aging; by 2030 the "baby boome
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Laurie Almoslino
8 years ago
this plan does not work for our community, and is unnecessary. Bicyclists have nearby routes. 35th Ave is already crowded, and the street parking is necessary.
Eliminating parking is going to create and congested and dangerous road. People With special needs or elderly need to be able to access business with convenient parking. Focus should be on improving the crosswalks and lack of designated left turn turn lanes.
As a frequent biker and driver in this neighborhood, I think it's best we spend more time and effort educating people on bike safety (for cyclists and drivers) and the available routes cyclists already have such as the greenway and Burke Gilman Trail. One of my favorite things about living in this area is the amount of parking and cycling options we have. Parking is critical for the small businesses in the area to succeed and as a frequent biker, I think cyclists already have many viable options to stay safe in the neighborhood. Loosing an entire side's worth of parking would be a shame and would hurt the surrounding residential streets because people would be forced to park there instead.
Please reconsider the plans to remove parking and convert those lanes to bicycle lanes on 35th in the Wedgwood neighborhood. As a dedicated cyclist, and neighbor, I appreciate the desire to create dedicated bike lanes, but I hope that you all will consider other options to preserve the ability of this limited retail core to serve disabled and elderly clients. This neighborhood has the Burke Gilman, which is the safest way to bicycle in this city! Please reconsider!
The city's bicycle plan is an illustration of the tyranny of the special interest bicycle minority in Seattle. They have bicycle greenway on 38th/39th NE. This proposed change is not needed and a waste of taxpayer's money.
SDOT is out of its mind, as is our duly elected district representative on the City Council, the Honorable Rob Johnson. It's time for some sweeping changes in both areas of city government.
This will also make it less safe and more difficult for residents who live on 35th Ave NE to get in and out of their driveways.
Businesses need access by people and this directly affects them. The Bike lanes are not needed.
This will hurt businesses and the cyclists themselves. Why can't we make bike lanes on side streets.? The results of the studies coming out of New York on the effects on cyclists breathing all that polluted air are not pretty.
What a bottleneck this will cause!
Enough already.
There are alternatives to taking lanes of traffic away and giving them to a few people who rarely use the new lanes.
Please sign this and pass on. We need to make the street safer for people walking in the area. Bikes have other options.
I'm an avid bicyclist and drive my car on 35th daily. SDOT need to really start thinking about what is common sense. We need to promote using the existing protected routes like the 39th greenway that are already in place. You would have to be stupid or righteous to take 35th on a bike. SDOT could not even get the last concrete panel and new curbs between 65 and 47th right. If they had actually measured for the east & west side parking and two lanes with maybe a mild widening of 12-18" it would prevent motorists ripping of other parked cars mirrors for the last few years. Was that a safe design by SDOT? Clearly not, now they want to put bicyclists in harms way on 35th. How about educating the public about safer pathways like 39th and save lives. You can drop over to 39th from 35th which takes two minutes and have an easy low traffic ride to the BG. It a great relaxing ride and currently in place. I give two thumbs up to the current greenway paths! Two down on the current plan to reduce lanes for cars on 35th!
I am signing this petition to support my Ravenna Bryant neighborhood, where I have lived for over 30 years. We need the street parking that currently exists! I support the small businesses lining our streets, my neighbors who go to the library and park on the street, the synagogue and church goers who attend and park nearby. I advocate that our streets remain as they are and not change to the dangerous plan that has been drawn up. Joan Lite Miller
There is no need for a bike lane on 35th! It’s already congested enough!
Not Smart
I am 73 years old, and my wife is 70. We live on 39th Ave NE between 62nd and 65th; our street is dedicated (nicely) to bicycle traffic. Neither of us can ride bicycles in the neighborhood. The plan SDOT has imagined for 35th Ave NE has come out of the heads of people who do not live in the neighborhood, and is bad news for us. Please stop it.
Stop the war on bikes! This plan looks like it is pro-bike but it is not supported by any bikers I know.
No More Bike Lanes for NE Seattle! The project to create bike lanes on 35th Avenue NE is not well thought out! Lets look at ALL the facts: * There are already designated bike lanes within 5 blocks, alternating between 38th Avenue NE and 39th Avenue NE. * Cutting parking by 60% on 35th Avenue NE and, at the same time, rezoning to allow multifamily housing with minimal on-site parking adds to an already dire situation. This plan will force more parking into surrounding neighborhoods, many with no sidewalks, taking away what little walking space there is on the road shoulders, forcing pedestrians to walk in the MIDDLE of the street, joining the drivers looking for parking! * The bike lanes are planned between the parking lane and the curb, with driveways into major businesses like Safeway crossing them. This creates many new problems: 1) it gives cyclists a false sense of safety as driver's line of site is potentially blocked by parked vehicles; 2) while drivers are used to looking before opening doors, passengers on the right side of cars are not, creating hazards for both passengers and riders; 3) passengers will have to step down and additional 4 inches, cross a bike lane, and then step back up, which for elderly people can be difficult as well as dangerous. Furthermore, there will not be wheelchair cuts mid block, which means anyone getting out of a car into a wheelchair will have to be walked to a corner or pulled up over a curb, which defeats the intent of the ADA putting in ramps at sidewalk corners. * The plan calls for doing away with some bus stops to help alleviate congestion and keep the buses on schedule. This will force people, including the elderly and disabled to have to walk farther to bus stops. It makes far more sense to have the comparatively few, and, incidentally, very able bodied bike riders ride a couple of extra blocks to 38th/39th. * Population around the US, as well as in this area is aging; by 2030 the "baby boome
this plan does not work for our community, and is unnecessary. Bicyclists have nearby routes. 35th Ave is already crowded, and the street parking is necessary.