Hours shortened at popular Seattle beaches due to safety concerns

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Alki Beach and Golden Gardens will close an hour earlier this summer, according to the Seattle Parks and Recreation Department.

A Memorial Day weekend on Alki Beach is filled with people soaking in the sun.

“I come down often probably once or twice a month and come down for a walk with friends and enjoy the atmosphere,” said Kira Smith. “Every time I come here i have no safety concerns at all. It’s just a great day at the beach and just hanging out and vibing.”

But everyone’s time on the beach is being cut a bit shorter.

The parks are currently open from 4 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. through Sept. 3. The parks will return to their normal closing time of 11:30 p.m. on Sept. 4.

READ THE FULL STORY HERE: https://www.king5.com/article/news/local/seattle/hours-shortened-seattle-beaches-safety-concerns/281-263714c4-dd1d-451a-9718-f02f9397a59d

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31 thoughts on “Hours shortened at popular Seattle beaches due to safety concerns”

  6. Wow. Seattle sucks now. back in high school we used to hang out at alki pretty late..like 12..1am..but i guess times have changed in the past 20 years

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  10. So innocent law abiding citizens are having their time at the beach cut short because Seattle can’t handle the criminals.
    Try arresting and locking them up.

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  11. "Policemen Patrolling Better"
    90%+, Chance This very
    Beach Walking Woman
    Voted, Marched, Protested
    Against Any, and All Police
    During The Late Spring ,and
    Summer
    Of '20. The Summer of Love.
    Further, Not just
    Her, But
    How Many
    Late/mocha sipping
    Beach Strollers
    Would Shite Their
    $200 Stretchy Pants
    The very Second
    Some Big "Patrolling Better" Cop
    'Racially Profiles' Someone
    Down on,By
    The Beach , or
    Slaps the cuffs on too tight
    On some Cruising Phuggie
    Post
    Shoot-out.
    Hey
    Seattle ,
    Ideology
    Has
    Consequence.
    Remember ,
    You
    Excused, Emboldened, Empowered ,
    Entitled These
    'Enrichers' That
    The Good Beach Walkers(with
    Their $ 5 coffees +,25%tip)
    Now Demand
    Safety Against.

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  12. …can't have nice things ? This is how great places to live gradually turn bad. I call it 'hardening of the architecture' and I've been watching this social disease get worse since sixth grade, when my school wrapped the entrances with chain link fence, for safety. Turning a classic building into a shoddy prison. A nice area into a slum. That beach is what makes the area cool. Give that time back, and ask why it ever closes, at all. Why do parks close at night? Is it because someones grandma thought, "Of course" 100 years ago ?

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  16. Those white residents living in those expensive apartments/ condos are the reason. They want to control all waterfronts, not just Alki, its Seward Park, and other parks like these.

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  17. Whatever happened to closing at dusk? Every public park here and especially the water front closes at dusk just north of Seattle. 11 pm I don't care what others think is late.

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  21. So instead of having police patrol these high crime areas we just close it early for all lmao. What a inept group of "leaders" we have. We going to act like the criminals aren't just going to find someplace else?

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  24. I LOVE IT THE BIDEN VOTERS DEFUND THE POLICE HATE COPS SOFT ON CRIME AND THIS IS WHAT YOU GET HAHHAHAHHAHHAHAHHA YOU DESERVE ALL OF THIS AND IT WILL ONLY GET WORSE I HOPE YOU ENJOY YOUR BIDEN VOTE AND HIDING IN YOUR HOMES

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  25. As long as Seattle has weak leadership nothing will change. Do u really think closing early will make a difference, your foolish if you do ? The parties will still go on along with the violence. Seattle is to sensitive of a city to have any bark to their bite. They are afraid of hurting criminals feelings.

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