Followup: Alki-neighborhood parking signs going up today

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In the Alki neighborhood along and around Stevens near 59th, SDOT crews are out today putting up the parking-restriction signs we first told you about three weeks ago. These aren’t new restrictions, but rather official demarcation of the existing rules regarding parking within a certain distance of intersections, driveways, etc. (On a slightly related note, we’ll take this occasion to remind you that the neighborhood meeting about the 59th/Stevens development is a week from Thursday; previous WSB coverage here.)

Tracy May 12, 2008 (2:52 pm)

Are these going up all over WS? We have some in our neighborhood as of last week. (Between Hanford & Hinds)

tracy

toomanyratsinacageakaWS May 12, 2008 (3:21 pm)

Sadly, signs are needed but people don’t read signs or ignore them most of the time. A lot of dangerous situations are created when people create parking spots and/or are ignorant of the law or common sense or both. The “oh I forgot” excuse .. I can’t tell you how many times I have seen cars blocking driveways, parked closer than 30 feet from a stop sign, blocking a corner/ sidewalk location, parked on the wrong side of the street, parked for more than 72 hours, etc, etc, etc. The city could rake in $$$ if they just ticketed people and maybe people would learn something. Have a law and not enforcing it just reinforces bad behavior.

AlkiResident May 12, 2008 (3:48 pm)

Not as far as I know. The signs going up in the Alki area are from people parking their cars too close to alleys, causing multi-point turns to get out of the alley onto the street, and too close to intersections so that it was quite unsafe to cross these intersections due to lack of visibility.

Todd May 12, 2008 (5:24 pm)

My favorite signs are the ones that say “Do not block intersection.” It amazes me that they had to be put up in the first place.. I can see it now, someone went to court and probably won because “your honor there wasn’t a sign saying I could not block the intersection”. There doesn’t seem to be much reason or accountability these days. A lot of selfish attitudes that result in signs being put up to help keep people accountable and reasonable. I’ll never understand how people can be so oblivious to the results of their actions.
A long time ago, Jan and I were talking about signs and she said, “Signs? People read signs!?” LOL. Best of luck to you Jan.