Long roadways in Seattle like Rainier, MLK, and Aurora cut scars across Seattle’s landscape and have their share of bad intersections. But, even though the main stretch of Denny, from Puget Sound to Capitol Hill, is shorter than those examples, it has more terrible intersections than any of them. And, with South Lake Union burgeoning with people walking, biking, busing, and driving there, those intersections are more clogged than ever.
As a person walking–and this competition has been developed from a pro-pedestrian perspective–your odds of having a clear intersection to cross are about as good as the odds of the Route 8 bus being on time.
Of the five times that we’ve done this poll, an intersection with Denny Way has now won three times.
But is it because intersections along Denny are just that bad? Or because the demographic that lives and works in the area is more likely to be focused on transportation issues and pedestrian problems than people in South Seattle?
Regardless, nobody can dispute that Denny and Stewart is an awful intersection for all users.
If Seattle founding father Arthur Denny had lived past the 19th century, he probably would have been hit by a driver at an intersection along Denny Way by now. In fact, back in 1971 when Amazon was still just a rainforest and a river, this intersection at Stewart was the most dangerous in the city.
