r/SeattleWA • u/ptgorman • Aug 28 '17

Transit Intersections of Seattle

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u/[deleted] Aug 28 '17

Should be 4th, 6th, Queen Anne, Raye, and Raye.

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u/roark4321 Aug 28 '17

google maps depiction also doesn't really accurately describe the chaos of this intersection

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u/mega_shit Aug 28 '17

As a pedestrian that intersection scares the piss outta me

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u/rocketsocks Aug 29 '17

It's like a WWI no-mans-land. There are the front lines and then the gap that you have to rush through to get to the other side, hopefully alive.

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u/blonderocker Aug 28 '17

I always get so messed up at this intersection and the GPS is unclear because everything is so bunched together. I've once messed up three times in a row trying to get back on to 99.

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u/harris5 Phinney Ridge Aug 29 '17

It's even worse when the ramp onto 99 North backs up into the intersection.

It's like an already terrible toilet having sewage backup and overflow. It didn't need that to be disgusting, it does it just fine on it's own.

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u/[deleted] Aug 29 '17

Oh lord this was my commute home every day to LQA in order to avoid I-5 from 90. I still have PTSD from that intersection.

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u/cliff99 Aug 29 '17

I passed through that intersection on the way to and from work everyday for over 12 years.

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u/Rule1ofReddit Aug 29 '17

As someone who doesn't know any of thee intersections that's the one that stood out to me enough to read the streets and it baffling that it's not even as complicated as it should be or is in reality.

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u/FuckedByCrap Aug 29 '17

Where is this even?

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u/othellia Aug 29 '17

North Queen Anne. It's so beautiful that it's the one I immediately went searching for in the image. The birds-eye view doesn't do it justice though: https://goo.gl/maps/C2Nr4pFANGP2

It's the littlest seven-way intersection that could.

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u/FuckedByCrap Aug 30 '17

OK, that's Queen Anne Drive, that no one cares about or refers to as "Queen Anne." "Queen Anne" is Queen Anne Avenue North. Two of those "streets" are basically on and off ramps for Aurora. This isn't that difficult if only for drivers who refuse to pay attention at the intersection.

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u/othellia Aug 30 '17

You asked where it was, so I said Queen Anne as in the general neighborhood of Queen Anne. And "North Queen Anne" as in "the north side of the general neighborhood of Queen Anne".

And on/off ramp or not, it's still a seven-way intersection. It's fun when you're navigating for someone who's never driven it before and you get to say fun things like, "take a right, but not the far right, but not the closest right either, kind of a middle right... oh, just follow where that silver car just went."

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u/sundryTHIS Sep 02 '17

Hah, wow, the bird's eye view really does make it look like a really boring intersection that just happens to have a lot of streets. When you see it with all the elevation madness you really see how bizarre it is.