Gaspare's/Toto's Wrecked
Sunday morning, a car crashed into the front end of an Italian restaurant in my old neighborhood of Maple Leaf, at the corner of Lake City Way and 15th:
Seattle Times article
I hope the restaurant survives - it wasn't half bad, a neat little corner restaurant, the kind every neighborhood needs.
The intersection is a dangerous one, and like many in Seattle, it needs an upgrade, or some serious rethinking. Yet, like many American cities, the city is too strapped for funds to do this - and when city leaders propose a resolution to that problem, idiots come out of the woodwork to denounce the plan.
So, either we can pony up another $140 a year in taxes, or continue to have unsafe intersections and lose small businesses, the backbone of every vibrant neighborhood.
Sadly, I know which option Seattle will choose...
Seattle Times article
I hope the restaurant survives - it wasn't half bad, a neat little corner restaurant, the kind every neighborhood needs.
The intersection is a dangerous one, and like many in Seattle, it needs an upgrade, or some serious rethinking. Yet, like many American cities, the city is too strapped for funds to do this - and when city leaders propose a resolution to that problem, idiots come out of the woodwork to denounce the plan.
So, either we can pony up another $140 a year in taxes, or continue to have unsafe intersections and lose small businesses, the backbone of every vibrant neighborhood.
Sadly, I know which option Seattle will choose...