{"id":460129,"date":"2010-03-22T19:51:37","date_gmt":"2010-03-22T23:51:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/northwestvoices\/2011412778_signboardsonseattlesidewalks.html?syndication=rss"},"modified":"2010-03-22T19:51:37","modified_gmt":"2010-03-22T23:51:37","slug":"signboards-on-seattle-sidewalks","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/460129","title":{"rendered":"Signboards on Seattle sidewalks"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>City\u2019s right to tackle this problem<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am pleased the city of Seattle, which boasts of being a walkable, pedestrian-friendly place, has finally begun to enforce its own laws protecting the rights of pedestrians against the rampant intrusion of commercial signboards on public sidewalks [\u201cSidewalk signs pit retailers against city,\u201d NWSunday, March 21].<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, the city has been lax on this for so long that such obstructions have reached epidemic proportions. Almost every commercial district in Seattle is now forested with such sidewalk-blocking signage.<\/p>\n<p>According to The Times\u2019 article, the city will not act without a specific complaint against a particular sign. But with hundreds \u2014 maybe thousands \u2014 of such illegal placards sprouted throughout town, how can an aggrieved pedestrian even begin to tackle the problem?<\/p>\n<p>I want all of the illegal signs off our sidewalks.<\/p>\n<p>Can\u2019t the shop owners \u2014 and real-estate agents \u2014 come up with other means of advertising without violating pedestrian rights of way? Commerce somehow thrives in all the other jurisdictions, which dutifully protect the rights of their pedestrians. Why not here?<\/p>\n<p><em>\u2014 Russell Scheidelman, Seattle<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>City\u2019s right to tackle this problem I am pleased the city of Seattle, which boasts of being a walkable, pedestrian-friendly place, has finally begun to enforce its own laws protecting the rights of pedestrians against the rampant intrusion of commercial signboards on public sidewalks [\u201cSidewalk signs pit retailers against city,\u201d NWSunday, March 21]. Unfortunately, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2861,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2861"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460129"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460129\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}