Property owners and businesses seem fine to give up on-street parking for this and Seattle seems fine to leave these in the right of way. What if we turned these blocks parallel to the road and made them into tactical protected bike lanes? Let's use this wasted space for something good.
We managed to get Harrell to cave and order SDOT to install semi permanent barriers after threatening to do it ourselves. The result was that 2 adjacent streets were closed to thru traffic after 2 years of continued back and forth pleading to do something beyond telling us SPD is understaffed.
It's no secret that the city council and mayor aren't getting along right now but as someone who has had to endure this violence in my neighborhood, I am disgusted that some of the council see this as an opportunity to try to score some political points.
Today I am reminded of a gun violence task force that SPD established 3 years ago in response to gun violence with noted emphasis on Aurora Ave.