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Give the People What They Want

By Josh Feit December 1, 2009

In today's PubliCalendar, Chris Kissel mentioned Mayor-Elect Mike McGinn's IdeasforSeattle page where anybody can log on and tell the Mayor-Elect Mike McGinn what he oughta do.

Others can vote for your idea.

There are 14 categories for ideas including "Public Safety," "Transportation" (which generated the most ideas at 125) "Neighborhoods,"  "Gov 2.0," "Arts/Culture/Nightlife," "Internet Infrastructure" (which sparked the smallest number of ideas at 10), and "Education."

So far, folks have proposed more than 500 ideas.

Here are the top 10 vote-getters overall in David Letterman order:

10. Make Seattle the most bike friendly city in the US

9. Support street food in Seattle

8. Work with local arts organizations to create participatory art (like green spaces with art that people can touch and climb on, temporary art that people an write on)

7. Legalize marijuana and tax it

6. Create a lid over I-5 in Seattle

5. Foot/bike patrols for SE Seattle

4. Reprioritize transportation spending to emphasize pedestrian/bike/transit modes

3. Connect the rest of the city with light rail

2. Provide affordable all-day scooter-motorcycle onstreet parking in downtown—just like San Francisco

1. Expand as much light rail and subway as possible

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