Comments on: Rainier Beach Neighbor to Metro: Can Problem Bus Stop Be Moved?

By: Christie Robertson

Christie Robertson — Tue, 17 Nov 2009 22:49:49 +0000

I’m glad the MBHA is taking note of the problem and has installed cameras. What is done with the data collected by the cameras?

I wonder what else could be done to beef up the law enforcement in the area. Seems like this would be a really good area for cops to just hang out or regularly stop by. I know that border between Tukwila and Seattle is part of the problem. How do police departments between cities historically cooperate?

The neighborhood in general feels pretty good to me. It’s a shame to have one bad corner in the middle of it that brings the whole neighborhood down.

By: Brian

Brian — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 20:27:36 +0000

Definitely not a corner you want school kids walking by. Too bad…yet another area, once a normal city corner, now being transformed to blight.

By: Erika

Erika — Fri, 30 Oct 2009 17:59:41 +0000

I live up the hill from that awful bus stop. The supposed “renovation” of those apartments has already taken place and not one thing has changed. Just this week I’ve seen the usual group of good for nothings shooting dice, drinking, smoking what looks like “blunts” and being the usual menacing creatures they are. The four corners around that bus stop are definite problems and honestly I don’t know that removing the bus stop would do any good. There’s no consistent law enforcement and the knuckleheads there know it.
My son has to pass there while on his way to work and he has started carrying high grade pepper spray.

By: Mark B

Mark B — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 06:14:05 +0000

110 degrees we would have to send them to the sauna at the YMCA
I do like your thinking though.

By: Kristen Johanson

Kristen Johanson — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 03:41:16 +0000

Unfortunately Seattle has changed and not for the better since I used to live there. I saw the handwriting on the wall years ago when I was in downtown Seattle and ran into one of the aggressive thugs from the gangs originating in Los Angeles while just minding my own business. I also saw man get beaten up by one of the gang members in downtown Seattle in the daylight.

It’s too bad they’ve been coddled for years; now they think they have the right to intimidate and bully people. Seattle should have a mayor or chief of police like they have in Phoenix, Arizona. They don’t fool around with gangsters; the criminals are put into tents in 110 degree heat in the summer with no air conditioning. Many criminals avoid Phoenix. hahaha

By: MarkB

MarkB — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:52:55 +0000

Straight Cadillac dippin’ in the ghetto sled.

By: ahow

ahow — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 21:35:01 +0000

I like “ghetto sled”, myself.

By: MarkB

MarkB — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:55:07 +0000

Cluck bucket – See ghetto car / Sometimes smaller

By: tasha

tasha — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:48:14 +0000

I vote for code!!

By: laurel

laurel — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 19:21:58 +0000

Ghetto car – late 80′s early 90′s sedan, usually with expired tabs and or stolen plates. Spray painted and badly dented, leaking fluids, bald tires and parked in front of drug house. Is this enough visuals or should I go back to wriring in code.