Seattle has retrofitted some of its streets during the 5 months I was teaching English in China. It is good to see the bike traffic lights, although it will take me a while to get used to riding my bike on the left. The road surface is a bit uneven, and the remnants of paint left from old parking spaces can be a bit confusing, but this makes riding south to north much safer and gives me an alternative route to West Seattle that avoids large sections of the ripped up roadwork under the Alaskan Way viaduct where Seattle's stalled waterfront tunnel is located. It's hard to retrofit a city that once thought cars were the only option. Hard, but worthwhile. Change is uncomfortable and disruptive, but offers the possibility of a better future.
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