Pedestrians play second fiddle to cars in Seattle as a whole. The walkable areas of Seattle are great, but they are a small portion of the city and are poorly connected. Some very active parts of the city have 4 or 5 lane arterials cutting through them with cars completely ignoring cross signals and pedestrians. Other areas lack sidewalks altogether.

See the "Lake to Bay" project, connecting a decent walking path from Lake Union to Elliot Bay. It will involve crossing streets. It will feature additional benches/seating and improved lighting. The initial proposal by a local resident was extremely well done.

That’s the very small walkable part.

Go to SoDo, or parts of South Seattle, or North Seattle, and it’s much worse, and that’s just “Seattle proper.”

Complaining about SoDo not being walkable seems silly..

I guess people are being anti-car extremists in this thread, but still. SoDo? Land of concerts and events and dispensaries?

SoDo has the only free public COVID testing center in the central area of the city. I don’t think it’s that unreasonable that people without cars should be able to safely access a public service.

Not to mention plenty of cyclist deaths from people who have to cross SoDo to get where they’re going.

Belltown resident for decades chiming in. It really is extremely walkable, including to Pioneer Square and Pike Place Market as well as locations the previous post mentioned.

Bell St. is a park (albeit paved for vehicles), and it finally received signage about local-only car access:

https://mcusercontent.com/b6749cc9930b55a313056721e/images/2...

That image is from the latest Belltown United newsletter - https://www.belltownunited.org/

I'm a proud Belltown Community Council supporter/participant.