South Seattle transportation plan sparks hope and skepticism - Seattle Globalist
This story originally appeared on the South Seattle Emerald , and has been updated since its original publication. Near the Columbia City light rail station, three men peer under the raised hood of a red Jeep. The Jeep is parked in a driveway in front of a house, tidy but older. The apartments-to-be loom over the men and the Jeep as people rush passed towards the Rainier Beach Community Center. It’s just after 7 p. m. on Thursday night, and a meeting is about to commence — a public information session about three planned traffic safety projects in the South End. Together the three represent the city’s biggest push into the neighborhood since building the light rail, as part of Mayor Ed Murray’s Vision Zero plan , which aims to bring traffic-related fatalities to zero by 2030. In attendance were Murray,... Sitting shoulder-to-shoulder on bleachers beneath basketball hoops and around tables across the court, attendants found no air conditioning to relieve them from the hot and muggy night. This past decade, Rainier Avenue has seen nearly 3,600 collisions, 11 traffic-related deaths and more than 1,700 injuries , according to SDOT. Source: seattleglobalist.com
