Editor’s note: The following letter addresses the recent Cleveland Street improvement project.

Maybe now they can find the money to replace the dangerous sidewalks along Cleveland Street, east of the new stretch. Though not very old, the sidewalk has surrendered to the trees and weather, and has heaved up all along the way, between the cement, the inset bricks and the poor attempt by the city to fill in the huge gaps with asphalt. There is not one area of flat pavement, and nowhere else to walk but on extremely uneven sidewalk, and there are many places where there is suddenly a several inch difference in height.

It is a lawsuit waiting to happen, especially as the city is “inviting” the public to spend evenings on that street, without clear lighting all the way along that area of Cleveland. I twisted my ankle a bit there two weeks ago, and when I started to closely examine the whole length of the two blocks I had to travel, I could not believe that the City of Redmond has allowed this obviously dangerous condition to continue. The problem is obvious, severe, did not just happen recently and continues for several blocks. Someone is going to suffer severe and permanent injuries someday soon, and it will be entirely the city’s fault.

M. Chang, Sammamish