Bad move into Freeway Parjk

Attempted Robbery In Freeway Park 

At about 4:00pm on April 12th, the victim and her companion were walking through the Washington State Convention Center when they noticed two men following them. As the victims walked through the convention center and out in to Freeway Park...

Without knowing all the facts, it could be that the first mistake was go out of a staffed building into Freeway Park.

In sense the Park was designed for danger: the Park was designed specifically to be un-urban -- a place to get away from the city, little bit of wilderness. And so what do you think wilderness is about -- besides physical beauty? wilderness is also about physical danger. Now in the sense that the designers didn't mean it but in the whole world, what animal is the most dangerous one? And the Park gave plenty of secret places, isolation etc for people to do bad things. Freeway Park should have been designed to be convivial and social. Now a break from commercial life on thew sidewalk where you can sit and rest is a fine idea -- I have no issue with parks, And in fact the impulse to bridge over I-5 to both create a park and connect two neighborhoods was a brilliant and worthwhile idea. The only problem -- and it could still be remedied -- is to eschew the idea of a wilderness park and make it a social park where there is visibility from into and out of the surrounding streets and sidewalks.