This summer the state highway department plans to show Aurora Avenue North some love – in the form of fresh paving.

The city says it has added pedestrian improvements around Aurora and 92nd Street North as well as other improvements in recent years.

But long stretches of Aurora will still lack sidewalks.

The City of Seattle said that 2.5 percent of all collisions between cars and pedestrians in Seattle happen on Aurora north of North 59th Street.

Lee Bruch, a retired architect who works with community groups along Aurora, said he is disappointed that the city is not doing more. He took a KUOW reporter to several locations along Aurora, pointing out incomplete sidewalks, sidewalks with telephone poles obstructing sidewalks, and long stretches without crosswalks.