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Please comment on car-free access problems you see in the pictures here. I’ve heard for some time now that the owners of this shopping center plan to remodel their store to take out the walkway inside and remove all of the spaces between it and the exterior of the shopping cente­r, putting all the stores inside the walkway up against a new exterior wall. Perhaps we could persuade the shopping center owners to incorporate some improvements to car-free access to the center if and when they remodel it.

I also took pictures of Olympia Health Foods behind the same shopping center. I have loaded them in to the image manager for the group and will include them in a separate post later. This is just a bit slow. It may be best to move the group or blog to a different website before I start promoting them more. I have been waiting on spreading the word until I had more pictures up or made some kind of progress.

This is the bus stop on Shroyer south of Stroop. There is no ramp between the sidewalk and the parking lot of the shopping center where Trader Joe’s is. Moreover, someone in a wheelchair would have to roll over mulch between shrubbery and, once they plunked into the parking lot, squeeze between parked cars to get to the shopping center.

This is the where the sidewalk outside the shopping center begins. There’s a wheelchair ramp from the parking lot, but notice how it narrows in the distance between the entrance and the post.

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This is where I park my bike when I shop at Trader Joe’s. There is now a bike rack there. It’s the kind that you stick your front wheel in, not my preference, but it’s something, and it shows that they’re making an effort.

When I bike, I come down Delaine and cross Stroop there. I have no complaints about that. In the median before the entrance there is a nice bit of sidewalk at the same height as the road. It makes crossing the road there easier and safer.

That’s all for now, please leave your comments