It is very dangerous and many patients and hospital staff have to cross there, and one car may stop but the other lane cars are flying up the hill. Even if they just painted a crosswalk would help there is only a sign above the street. The flashing light would be better but we will take anything to help be safer.

I see a lot of cars turning left to the Swedish Parking garage even though they are not supposed to. I almost got hit there several times.

GET IT DONE NOW ....CARS do not stop !!!!

Very difficult to see people crossing here.

Every day I see people trying to cross here and cars do not stop for them. There is a lot of foot traffic at this "crosswalk" because it is between two medical buildings and a parking garage.

Its been 31 days since my initial post and nothing has been done yet. No word on if anything will be done. Some sort of communication from the city would be helpful.

I was very close to being hit this morning, and when I just went out there and the police were there as someone did get hit.

I'm not sure how many more people have to be hit in this crosswalk before it is marked. Cars actually speed up here, even buses and other city vehicles. A woman was struck here today by a car. This is serious, scary, life-threatening. PLEASE!!!! Mark this, the sign is up so high, cars don't see it, mark the street with lines, put a crosswalk signal, anything to stop the cars, there is always traffic here and people are not interested in waiting for pedestrians to cross. One care might stop but the cars in the other 3 lanes keep going or they go around the stopped car.

I gave her my info and am hoping she will tell the people in her building about it and join this. I am very much hoping it will happen before someone is hospitalized!!

Still no word from the city about this. How many pedestrians getting hit will it take to get the cities attention.

This intersection is frequently traveled by hospital employees, hospital patients and pedestrians and is one of the most dangerous intersections in the city. SOMETHING HAS TO BE DONE NOW to protect the public from vehicles driving too fast, and being distracted. I have been navigating this intersection for 5 years, multiple times a day, and have almost been hit by cars too many times to count.

Today I was hit by a distracted driver in the intersection of James and Minor. The driver fled the scene after hitting me. What is it going to take for action to be taken by the city??? A fatality?! Someone being seriously injured?! I am lucky that I walked away from being hit today with only minor injuries. It is just a matter of time before someone is killed if the city doesn’t act fast!

I am including my police report number for the city’s reference. It is imperative signals, flashing lights (like Virginia Mason has for their pedestrians) and a crosswalk are installed immediately!

City of Seattle PD incident #: 2019-181114

I will be emailing the mayor of Seattle and contacting SDOT today to hopefully get someone to act on this serious matter immediately

I'm so sorry this happened to you. I emailed Q13 about this intersection. I hope the mayer listens!

Thank you, Skye. We need to bring all the attention we can to this dangerous intersection. That’s a great idea to get the media involved. I think I will email them too!

Has anyone emailed or called the Swedish transportation department? Or notified Guy Hudson of the importance of putting in a crosswalk and flashing lights to protect employees and patients of Swedish? Maybe they can help put pressure on the city to make the necessary changes to make this intersection safe

That is a great idea! I don't think anyone has. I will ask my colleagues and pursue that.

Feel free to include me if you email them.
Jade.meyers@swedish.org

I will. And if you hear anything let me know. Skye.smith@swedish.org.

I most certainly will

I emailed Guy and CC'ed Skye and Jade