City aware of tough intersection at 15th & Market

Last month, Roy Hobbs sent us this picture and said that he sees situations like this pretty often. He says the corner from 15th heading east onto Market is a tight fit for big rigs. The city agrees.

Aubrey Cohen of the SeattlePI asked the city about this predicament. Eric Widstrand, city traffic engineer with the Seattle Department of Transportation says that the city is looking at different options. “For example,” Widstrand says, “changing the intersection to allow longer commercial trucks to negotiate the turn more easily may create challenges for pedestrians by making the pedestrian crossing longer or by reducing sidewalk space at the corner.”