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Seattle’s Transportation Department didn’t have immediate plans to install any kind of buffer between car and bicycle lanes on Cherry Street when a guerrilla group of bicycle advocates decided in April to do it themselves. There should be more of these type of pylon buffers out there.
Under the cloak of anonymity, a group calling itself “Reasonably Polite Seattleites” used temporary adhesive to place flexible plastic pylons between the busy, steep lanes on Cherry Street underneath Interstate 5.
“We wish we didn’t have to spend our own money on common-sense, unobtrusive traffic calming treatments, and risk arrest installing them, in order to feel safe riding in this city,” one of the advocates wrote to the city.
Though the city initially removed the posts, it has now spent about $20,000 to make the group’s wishes a reality.