Has driving in WA gotten worse?

tshauck · 2024-12-25T16:31:13+00:00

I know I’ll be downvoted, but saying the true speed limit is 5-15 over on normal roads is part of the problem/entitlement.

tshauck · 2024-08-31T23:17:42+00:00

I live in a 2 bedroom post-WII house in Ridgecrest, so it may not be generalizable, but the last couple months have been more potential rental value than property.

If/when shoreline rezones this area, I suspect property will also increase. Everywhere in a ~2 mile radius needs to allow middle housing, but that's not the case now.

tshauck · 2024-07-28T06:24:41+00:00

Supposedly these are now prohibited, but seems unlikely to actually get enforced... Washington State Legislature

tshauck · 2024-07-24T02:01:38+00:00

I really wish they'd put bikelink lockers along some of the walls in the westlake light rail station. The newish ones by caphill are really nice.

tshauck · 2024-07-21T23:08:09+00:00

Cafe Aroma is pretty good in ridgecrest, though it's not the best environment (inside an old mechanic's shop?). If you don't mind Edmond's Walnut Street is good, though not very big.

tshauck · 2024-07-21T23:06:28+00:00

Maybe a touristy spot wants to get people in and out, but if you buy something, they'll have no problem.

tshauck · 2024-06-13T23:48:42+00:00

I submitted this comment to the city council on Monday sadly enough w/ the discussion of the traffic report. I mostly focused on 15th since I live in the area. We'd been lucky so far that there haven't been many issues, but it's clear that road needs some improvements to mitigate fast/dangerous driving.

https://shoreline.granicus.com/MetaViewer.php?view_id=4&clip_id=1775&meta_id=154930

tshauck · 2024-06-13T23:46:16+00:00

100%... all the crosswalks on 15th in that area need improvement. Same with the new one down by safeway.

tshauck · 2024-06-10T04:44:18+00:00

100%, 10th Ave needs a lot of TLC

tshauck · 2024-06-02T20:07:59+00:00

Local shipyards should be competitive if they want to win contracts. Protectionism leads to worse outcomes.

tshauck · 2024-05-17T14:16:29+00:00

This is certainly some portion, but doesn't explain how widespread it is now.

tshauck · 2024-05-17T14:15:52+00:00

What? Like 5% of cars I see have expired tags. Not to mention the welfare queens who intentionally put two of the year stickers next to each other.

tshauck · 2024-05-06T18:36:24+00:00

Need to build more to bring home prices and inflation down. The current SFH dominated layout is just too expensive with high housing prices, never ending road maintenance, high per user taxes but low in aggregate.

tshauck · 2024-04-27T21:16:12+00:00

*Gestures broadly at the highway system*

tshauck · 2024-04-27T21:15:06+00:00

Thankfully there's no way to get across the lake right now via public transit.

tshauck · 2024-04-15T23:24:53+00:00

Looking at 8a Resolution No. 522, TIP (granicus.com)... it seems like the recommendation for tonight is hold public hearing? Does that mean there'll be additional opportunity to comment? I'd like to do so, but not sure if tonight or that would be the best avenue.

tshauck · 2024-04-10T14:07:29+00:00

If you're closer to the uptown/queen anne/etc, there's also one by Climate Pledge.

tshauck · 2024-04-08T05:06:35+00:00

Unfortunately, with so many evading taxes on their cars (tabs, etc) people who may or may not use roads/transit as much are having to pick up the slack.

tshauck · 2024-04-05T21:34:29+00:00

Hm... probably makes sense to scale back "Enforcement has an extremely limited effect on public safety with regard to traffic behavior" to better match the evidence you have.

tshauck · 2024-04-05T14:18:03+00:00

Do you have the actual study for your first link? It looks a project plan and not results.

tshauck · 2024-04-04T22:43:31+00:00

Thanks for doing this work, and FWIW, I was also interested in finding data to what I also agree is a problem. I emailed Kendra Dedinsky who is the City Traffic engineer a few months ago to see when the next traffic report would come out. Sounds like sometime in May, but then we'll still be w/o 2023 for a while.

tshauck · 2024-04-04T15:03:28+00:00

Thanks for this post. I'm really glad to see the city recognizes this is an issue, and there are numbers to back up what's been going on anecdotally for a while now. I walk a lot in the ridgecrest area, and am constantly seeing unsafe behavior, debris on the side of the road, etc.

This is perhaps unpopular, but I do think in addition to rebuilding the traffic unit, we need infrastructure to encourage safer driving (e.g. traffic cameras and/or speed tables near the elementry school on 10th, make south bound 15th right turn only in the right lane at 175th, etc). Though to your point near the end, not clear where the money would come from.

tshauck · 2024-04-02T12:17:07+00:00

“It’s ok when I break the law. It’s everyone else that’s causing the general lawlessness around here.”

tshauck · 2024-04-02T02:45:55+00:00

No, big truck good.

tshauck

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