Friday, February 22, 2019

Snow The Sequel? The hearing? The Plowing?


Some kind of musical cue indicating more snow possibly on the horizon, maybe low woodwinds with a little more of a scale than the JAWS shark…

#seattlesnow #SeattleSnowpocalypse

 

While we restock our larders in case the Monday forecast actually occurs…

Snow: Advocacy



 

Note: the letter above covers a lot of infrastructure accessibility points; some members of the #deaf community also advocate for the mayor to ALWAYS use sign language interpreters for her press briefings, not just one day of them. So probably worthwhile to see whether other things need to get added to followup.

 

 

Here some more background with lots about ADA requirements and practices in different cities.   Kostelec Planning on Snow  

RantWoman appreciates all the technical detail for instance about plowing practices. At the same time, RantWoman can totally respect people who decide just not to go out because they cannot count on continuous safe travel routes, even in the best scenario.

 

 

Snow. Burien


By way of celebrating RantWoman’s habit as much as possible of getting to transportation meetings on her own with usual tools, just as an exercise, Tuesday RantWoman went to Burien. The bus trip was fine. The last ¼ mile or so was about average in the department of wander around a big complex with minimal signage, never mind whether RantWoman can read the signage that is there, and find the building where the meeting is supposed to be.  RantWoman thanks a Leaf-driving automotive rescuer…

 

RantWoman’s point though in mentioning travel to Burien: the 131 bus was one that did not operate under Metro’s Emergency Service plan. The part of the route RantWoman rode did not seem excessively steep. The streets the bus ran on seemed to have been plowed. So what’s up with why a route is or is not in the emergency Service Network? Does a municipality need to kick in money? Are there technical or road characteristic issues RantWoman has not thought about. Basically, what’s up with that?

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