“We have curbs for a reason,” he says. “They protect people from cars.”
An advocate for sustainable streets, Ostrow is the muckraker behind the Queen Anne Greenways account on Twitter, which has been critical of the novel design of the plaza. Barbara Bailey Way features a pedestrian area that smears into the roadway without the traditional concrete lip of a curb just one continuous apron of pavement, with just a few subtle concrete ridges to delineate between space for cars versus humans.
Unfamiliar though the treatment may be in Seattle, this curbless arrangement has been appearing in more locations in the last few years, and could be a feature of more streetscape makeovers in the future.
West Seattle Blog… | 29 new speed humps on the way to Arbor Heights
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Seattle Recalculates Walk Signal Timing to Make Crossings Safer for Pedestrians
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Kevin Calabro March 8, 2021 (4:15 pm)
Is there any reason 63rd Ave SW can’t have speed bumps or crosswalks at the half block? It’s a drag strip, some mitigation is needed imo. .
Joe Z March 8, 2021 (4:36 pm)
This is nice! Fills in a missing gap from High Point to the Junction. The only bummer is that the north end connection to the rest of the bike network via Alaska is inconvenient. I wouldn’t want to bike up the hill to 42nd just to come back to Fauntleroy. As someone who lives near the Avalon Triangle what would really make sense is to have protected bike lanes on Fauntleroy from 35th to Morgan Junction…that’s the most direct route and the least hilly. Then one could take this Greenway to get to High Point. SDOT really needs to start emphasizing filling in the missing gaps in the bike network, it’s annoying that the most direct routes are not used.
West Seattle Blog… | More how fast you re going speed-radar signs on the way to West Seattle
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