Nick Licata cataloging dangerous intersections

Saw this on the Pinehurst Neighborhood blog today, an invitation to submit your neighborhood’s most dangerous intersection photos to his assistant. (Kinda sucks to be that dude - couldn’t your boss have sprung for your web dev to link to a free flickr or Live account?)

You can check out their ‘Critical Crossings’ site here.

Of course, one question I have to ask is, how is this different from the dangerous intersection cataloging work that is being done by the Bridging the Gap process? I wrote about the many worthy projects that were submitted to Bridging the Gap last year but didn’t get approved (there was only $4.5 mil available for $239 mil worth of submitted requests). You can check out the list of neighborhood projects submitted to the city last year.

Of course, you have to keep in mind that SDOT has a very different idea of which intersections are worthy of upgrading vs. the Seattle Police Department. Dave has a nice comment about this, and I’ll post a letter from SDOT explaining why they couldn’t add a lighted crosswalk to the following dangerous intersection.

(Wedgwood intersection in need of help (35th Ave NE and NE 80th). The NE District Council ranked as the NE’s #2 Bridging the Gap priority for 2008. And as someone who catches the bus here - I would agree with that.)