So, Fairview/Valley street, railroad tracks, heavy traffic. Two pinch flats in a month, safety issue. Who/where the fuck do I complain?

Thanks.

Our Seattle city government is so fucked up. I called SDOT to request street sweeping before Bike to Work Day at the west end of the lower west Seattle bridge, I called 3 times! Finally I was told that the Storm Water department, or some such dept. was responsible since it was a sidewalk and the problem was the "drainage ditches" along the path were clogged and flooding the sidewalk. Well, BTWD came and went, and nothing happend. Gregg, hand swept the entire path from the lower bridge to Delridge. Now who do we call for brush trimming?


What really gets me is that the city doesn't have any maintenance schedule for streets, sidewalks, public stair cases, bike lanes, bike trails, bike paths, multi-use paths, side streets, bridge sidewalks, etc. All of these facilities need sweeping and brush trimming and repair, much more than the streets. The benefit is much geater than actually sweeping the streets or repairing pot holes in the drive lane. Those are important too, but the city is basically doing nothing! The Pot Hole Rangers are nothing more than a publicity stunt! I once saw them repair a pot hole right next to some others, but the others were not reported, so they did not fix them!

The MUP is a joke, at least the way it's going in now. You still have to cut across 4 lanes/wait for the crosswalk to get up 9th Ave. Lame.

Rear Wheel - Continental Gatorskin* - 700 x 25C ~120 - 125 PSI ( 8.27 - 8.62 BAR )

*With tuffy tire liner

South Lake Union Eats Balls Coming From Eastlake.

Mr Jetta

I concure Garth, that section bites and it is by design or lack there of, granted it is under construction but I don't know what the final design is suppose to look like. It is not about tire selection. I had an asshat encounter there recently. I was in the right lane of fairview, merging on to valley, slowly picking my way across that spagetti mess of tracks, Mr Jetta was impatiant hanked at my wf eand I for being in the lane and then intentionally came close to side swiping me as he passed, uhg. Humping up the eastlake hill past REI to Stewart seems like the route for now.

I concure Garth, that section bites and it is by design or lack there of, granted it is under construction but I don't know what the final design is suppose to look like. It is not about tire selection. I had an asshat encounter there recently. I was in the right lane of fairview, merging on to valley, slowly picking my way across that spagetti mess of tracks, Mr Jetta was impatiant hanked at my wf eand I for being in the lane and then intentionally came close to side swiping me as he passed, uhg. Humping up the eastlake hill past REI to Stewart seems like the route for now.

Heading Into Downtown

Ride it everyday... why am I bitching. Shit ain't going to get done about it.
Oh well.

It was fun riding with CM through that area just because all the eastsiders driving into the city stared at bikers like we had 4 heads and were breathing fire.

yeah...sorry about that...my bad!

(evil grin)

another way I've gone:
brutal hill, then stewart st

Definitely Eric,
that's the *only* way I go...
I would go bonkers if I didn't get that hill in.
It really isn't that big of a hill though. A better hill route is up and around lakeview.
But going montlake up 23rd and then madison is the best hill route.

The blow out spot.

The semi-safe assertive route, where you get spit on and yelled at.

Horns are for emergencies. When a car honks, the safest thing to do is come to a complete stop, so you can figure out what the emergency is.