HAPPENING NOW: Walk the SW Roxbury project zone with SDOT

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5:30 PM: For the next 2 1/4 hours, SDOT’s project team will walk the SW Roxbury project zone – as was done with 35th SW last Saturday – with anyone who shows up to ask questions, voice concerns, or just look and listen. Here’s the schedule:

5:30 pm – 4th/Roxbury
5:50 pm – 8th/Roxbury
6:15 pm – Delridge/16th/Roxbury
6:45 pm – 26th/Roxbury
7:15 pm – 30th/Roxbury
7:45 pm – 35th/Roxbury

You can join anywhere along the way. We’re off to see what happens as it starts, and we’ll be back with an update.

6:03 PM: We met up with SDOT’s James Le at the 8th/Roxbury meetup point. He was alone. He told us one person did show up at the 4th/Roxbury starting point – but not to talk about the Roxbury project; that person wanted to know what was the leading option so far for 35th. (Project manager Jim Curtin had said during Saturday’s walking tour there that Option A was “looking good. Curtin is scheduled to join the Roxbury tour around 17th/Roxbury, about 15 minutes from now, said Le.)

10:03 PM: Here’s a photo from 30th/Roxbury, where we checked back on the tour. By that point, Curtin told us, they’d tallied about a dozen participants along the way, including those at this stop:

From left, Eric Iwamoto of the Westwood-Roxhill-Arbor Heights Community Council (and co-chair of the Southwest District Council), Chris Stripinis, who is the transportation point person for WWRHAH, Richard Miller from the North Highline Unincorporated Area Council and West Seattle Crime Prevention Council, Le and Curtin from SDOT. Work on the project is expected to start in mid-August.

smokeycretin9 May 20, 2015 (6:15 pm)

I’ll be waiting at 21st

flashing orange light May 20, 2015 (7:57 pm)

So I stopped by and chatted with this fellow for about 35 minutes at 8th and Roxbury to catch up on what has been determined for the area that is so dang scary to cross at peak hours.

My takeaway is that the orange flashing light for turns is not timed long enough for north or south turns off of Roxbury. I don’t know if the flashing orange has reduced reported accidents, but I see impatient cars jump to the right lane to get around cars waiting on the left turn orange light and behold, a new set of problems. It is a VERY short sequence on orange. Is that helping? Only the numbers know. I think this nice fellow was tired and was getting confused between what measures have already been taken at that intersection and what will happen in the near short term at that intersection and what *might* happen at that intersection. Nice guy though.

smokeycretin9 May 20, 2015 (9:11 pm)

I too had a very polite and productive discussion with the group at 21st. I am quite excited about the changes that are coming. I also felt like my concerns were important and taken into consideration for the future

ACG May 20, 2015 (10:51 pm)

Not totally related, but I just needed to vent. Corner of 35th and Roxbury. Drove home tonight (after dark) and noticed the new MMJ shop has its signage up. It is the absolute tackiest worst signage. Thanks, guy, for somehow making that corner unimaginably worse than it already was appearance wise. The glaring signage lit up at night is just terrible. I can only hope it isn’t as awful in the daylight, but I’m not optomistic. The dispensary across the street (NWPRC) is so much more in line with an actual dispensary that appears to be professional in its tactics and assisting people with their medical needs. Boo to the new shop. Boo. So very sorry to vent here.

On the actual topic though, I’ll be interested to see how/what improvements are done at Rox and 8th.

Good night!

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