Visitors on Alki on the weekends and holidays are ruining the neighborhood.

[aquamarine11]

Alki has been my home for years. People come here to enjoy the beach and the sunshine. Okay…But they create total kaos. So many are rude, loud, they throw their garbage in our yards, park in our driveways, scare our animals, crash into our cars, create traffic jams and the list goes on and on….it just keeps getting worse. It’s Monday after another crazy weekend. There is garbage everywhere. Who are these people?

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[Sunuva]

Alki definitely has a chaotic feeling when we visit these days. We love spending time there but are starting to go less often because of the parking situation. The no cruising law has obviously not been enforced as of late. We were there the weekend before last and it was a steady stream of cruising cars and bikes, loud stereos, etc. It creates this sense of a somewhat lawless party atmosphere, even early in the day. I believe that if law enforcement did some serious anti-cruising and littering enforcement, it would calm down the atmosphere and help things tremendously.

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[JoB]

look.. i’m sorry people are behaving like jerks..
but what did you expect when you took up residence at the beach?

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[Bonnie]

I guess we shouldn’t expect people to respect our neighborhood? Is that too much to ask? It makes me sad. I avoid Alki during the weekends and evenings during the summer. It’s not too bad during the weekdays but not everybody has the luxury of going to Alki on a Tuesday morning/afternoon when everybody is at work. :( I stick to Lincoln Park. Much calmer but still busy.

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[aquamarine11]

I expect people to be courteous and to respect our property and our neighborhood, as I would be if I visited their neighborhood. Guess that’s way too much to ask these days.. Last weekend my husband saw a woman throw a dirty baby diaper in the street when there was a garbage can directly across the street from her car. Seriously?

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[waynster]

We say we are green we recycle we brag just how green we are not just west seattle or seattle… the state as a whole ….this is a laugh drive the any road north south east and west look at the trash along the our road ways in the parks… camp grounds…. they say leave only foot prints no instead we leave this…..

http://komonews.com/news/local/visitors-to-alki-beach-greeted-by-piles-of-trash-broken-bottles-raw-meat

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[CMP]

3/4 of the year, Alki must be a pretty nice place to live but summer is the worst. I avoid going down there and do feel for the residents that have to deal with the riff raff that visit. The dirty diaper is a gross example of how disrespectful and lazy people can be. Riding a bike in the bike lane is next to impossible with pedestrians loitering in the way. I do hope there are extra patrols, as it seems to get worse every year, because Alki residents deserve more. Yes, they chose to live near the beach, but that doesn’t mean that non-Alki residents should get away with treating the neighborhood so poorly.

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[JoB]

i live near the high school in Westwood…

and i get to pick up other people’s garbage from my alley, from the street in front of my house, from the rain garden in the parking strip and from my yard… in fact.. i have to check my front yard before i let the dog go out there because people thrown things he shouldn’t have… and he will eat anything.

Would i be happier if people respected my neighborhood? yes, i would. I keep a very nice yard and i work hard to maintain it.

but.. i live near a school and young people will be thoughtless.. some not so young as well…

my point is that the kind of mess people leave behind isn’t confined to Alki…

When you choose to live where lots of other people will visit.. you run a greater risk of encountering the mess they leave behind.

• This reply was modified 8 years, 11 months ago by JoB.

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[JanS]

we live with many people who have absolutely no respect for anything but their own things, and sometimes not even that. I lived a block from Alki on 61st about 17 years ago…yes , there was some trash, but not like this. And we’re told to speak up if you see it happening…but sometimes that doesn’t get you far, as people will show their disrespect in your face, directed at you. It’s always someone else’s responsibility…not theirs. It’s very sad…is this what the word “freedom” means that’s being bandied about by one of our president candidates ( used the word presidential first…but he is a far cry from that…sigh)..? :(

• This reply was modified 8 years, 11 months ago by JanS.

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[LoveAlki]

With the crowds that come during summer, there used to have a lot more of a police presence. I’ve lived here a few years and haven’t seen police park and walk along Alki on these crowded weekends like they have in the past. The lawless atmosphere would be deterred if police could hang out on Alki for friendly visits. On Sunday, there was a beer pong tournament on the beach and just a 100 yards further down the beach was an enclosed tent (with windows) where people were serving drinks – – – people were standing in line (and I don’t think it was for the potato chips).

The trash that made KOMO news today at the picnic shelter mentions they were partying into the wee hours of the night. Why weren’t the police clearing out the beach at 11pm like they used to. By the way, if someone signed up to reserve that picnic shelter they should be fined for the trash the group left behind. No responsibility, no accountability towards others. That’s what lawlessness looks like.

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[Jeannie]

Has anyone contacted our councilwoman? Spoken with the police department?

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[clulessinws]

Same stuff, different year. Getting worse. It’s sad.

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[dhg]

I know a family that moved away from Alki over 20 yrs ago after someone was shot and killed in front of their house. The chalk outline was the final straw. We avoid Alki in the summer because we’ve had problems with motorbikes when we go. For some reason, they love to park just in front and in back of my car, blocking me in. IF I nicely ask them to pull out the bike so I can leave, they get nasty.

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