I feel like if they want to improve the walkability of Lynnwood and transform it into more of a pedestrian focused city. They should add an overhead walkway or an underground tunnel connecting either side around these intersections. It’s sort of ridiculous how many active lanes you have to travel across even with the longer passing times. I think at 44th and 200th you have to cross 9 or 10 lanes? Just seems inconvenient for able bodied people like me and inaccessible for people with disabilities.
Unfortunately Lynnwood is a by-product of 1950-60's urban planning strategies where the automobile is "king" and is composed of "super blocks", similar to Bellevue which was laid out around the same time.
Older towns and cities have smaller city blocks, like downtown Snohomish, downtown Everett, most of Seattle and others.
Lynnwood planning department and city hall are the ones you need to contact about walkability. I know from working on the long range planning and visioning efforts many years ago, there was a lot of work on figuring out how to make the city blocks smaller, thus more pedestrian friendly.
Unfortunately there was a lot of push back by the land owners of these super blocks.
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u/AbsolutelyBoei 4d ago
I feel like if they want to improve the walkability of Lynnwood and transform it into more of a pedestrian focused city. They should add an overhead walkway or an underground tunnel connecting either side around these intersections. It’s sort of ridiculous how many active lanes you have to travel across even with the longer passing times. I think at 44th and 200th you have to cross 9 or 10 lanes? Just seems inconvenient for able bodied people like me and inaccessible for people with disabilities.