This posting is taken from a comment section on the the Seattle PI website.  Story and comments found here:

http://blog.seattlepi.nwsource.com/seattle911/archives/145457.asp

Posted by unregistered user at 8/7/08 1:52 a.m.

I also live on this corner. The witnesses I huddled with immediately after the accident said the people on the pedicab were screaming for their lives at the people on the sidewalk to stop the traffic on western ave. They knew they could not stop.

It is difficult to imagine a worse predicament to find yourself in: 630pm on a weekday, in the back of a pedicab with no brakes, heading down cedar which is the steepest hill in belltown in my book, approaching a totally blind intersection, then running a red light across western ave which has the prevailing speed limit of I-5. Covering the intersection of western and cedar with flowers tomorrow would be appropriate for this kind of tragic circumstance.

Welcome to the Belltown, the urban density “walkable neighborhood” with a freeway running through its center… except this freeway is western ave, with intersections, traffic lights, bikes, dogs, tourists, children, double semi trailer petroleum trucks, and no speed limit. Who needs a tunnel? Let’s route the 50+ mph heavy industrial traffic through our prized double-decker highway that will collapse on us in the next earthquake, then through the densest residential population center in the state, and finally through the olympic sculpture park, like any other world class city would.