u/chishiki

Hey Shoreliners, we've added neighborhood flair so you can show which part of Shoreline you rep.

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seems like a win-win scenario

Long story short this gate on the NE corner of Ridgecrest Elementary locks out a pretty wide-swath of the part of the Ridgecrest neighborhood nearest North City.

Probably wouldn’t be share-worthy if it didn’t happen so often and if the admin of the school took it seriously.

I’ve made a half-dozen calls a year, have witnessed kids climbing the fence, I once saw a woman pass her baby over this fence to a stranger, so she could get to her other child on the other side.

In the three minutes it took me to walk over and take these photos (alerted by my daughter, who ended up taking the scenic route along lovely 15th ave) a jogger turned the corner, saw the gate, and dropped an F bomb. 30 seconds later a dude with a stroller echoed that same exasperation.

It seems like such a small thing for them to not be able to manage it properly. Likewise I know it seems like such a small thing to be annoyed about, but random gate closures suck, and the frustration kind of compounds.

A private street just south of us has a gate directly onto school grounds that has no lock. Really not sure why our gate exists or why it must be locked.

TEAR DOWN THIS GATE, MR GORBACHEV