Who's ready to have some fun being disappointed in the amount of ROW devoted to cars on the Eastside? :D
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Before that, east #BellevueWA has worse walking infrastructure than I imagined. I never thought that sidewalk access would just *stop* on NE 8th, the central east-west thoroughfare for all of the city, but I was proven wrong. North side path just stops abruptly after this stop.
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Emphasis on the word "path". Cause several hundred feet beforehand, the sidewalk just unceremoniously turns into a two foot wide dirt path with no passing room. Topping it off, you wanna cross to the other side of the road? Here, have an obligatory unmarked crosswalk.
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Lack of even a footpath on the north side continues all the way down to Northup, so it's really comical seeing these islands of stops for the 226 w/ absolutely no ped infrastructure around them. Transit's only as good as the walking infrastructure supporting it, guys.
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Unless 's intent is to have peds share the bike path on the north side. But there's barely enough room to even call it a bike path - I clocked it at just over 5 feet leaving Northup, with certain stretches just 4.5 feet!
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With over 30' of ROW, it'd be so easy to just make the auto lanes the -recommended 10', then have a 10' two-way cycletrack or multiuse path protected by a concrete barrier. This path could provide an important E-W connection between Northup/E Bellevue and Crossroads.
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But 's got to actually make the choice to do it. And residents will inevitably be upset, but maybe we should come to realize that auto-owning suburbanites may be the city's present, but they're certainly not its future.
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Bonus pic - there might be demand for Vision Zero/20 is plenty signs in Bellevue if residents are having to use signs instead.
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