Danger Will Robinson!

[susandennis]

My office is at the corner of First and King Street. I live across the street and half way down the block. I cross the intersection about a dozen times a day. Before I came to work here, I worked in the building kitty cornered from here. That makes more than 3 years of solid intersection monitoring.

I just read in the morning paper that this intersection is the most dangerous in all of Seattle. More accidents happen at this intersection than any other in town.

I think in the three years that I have been intimately involved in this intersection, I have seen maybe 2 accidents. Certainly no more and maybe not even that many. Quite the head scratcher, this news...

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hmm . . .

[machupicchu.livejournal.com]

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I find this very interesting as well. I live on 5th and Blanchard in Belltown, and although I don't tend to see the accidents, I have heard at least three accidents out in that intersection in the four years I have lived here.

Of course, Belltown as a neighborhood does not have the best reputation when it comes to safety, traffic or otherwise. About two years ago a woman was raped and murdered in an alley a block and a half from here (I may have heard her scream from my open window); there was another murder a year or two before that in an apartment building about three blocks up 5th Avenue, and one year while I was watching Seafair from the roof of my building, I witnessed a drug deal behind the back door of Seattle - King County Public Health, which is across the alley from my building.

Oddly, I have never felt unsafe living here. And now that I think about it, the one neighborhood that has given me the creeps more times than any other is Pioneer Square . . .
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Re: hmm . . .

[susandennis]

Now, see, that's really wild because you couldn't pay me to walk by myself through Belltown after dark. But, I got no problem walking through Pioneer Square by myself day or night - I've done it for 10 years without a thought. There are always tons of people around Pioneer Square and Belltown always seems so deserted. Weird, huh?

[edbook.livejournal.com]

did you read the sidebar that the accidents were caused by the drivers being distracted by some cute lady that was walking down the sidewalk....


Peace

[susandennis]

HA! And, thanks! My day didn't suck before but now it is glorious!