This document calls out the major urban design problems with the 2012 update for the Montlake Lid. Click the images below to enlarge them or download the full PDF here.

*Some WSDOT folks count the existing pedestrian crossing north of the gas station as five lanes, not four. Ok. But everyone knows that WSDOT’s drawings showing happy little kids flying kites on the Montlake Lid are BS because kids don’t fly kites — they fly drones.
Document by Rainer Metzger, with design images by WSDOT.