Tomorrow, Saturday, October 3, community members are invited to a neighborhood celebration and ribbon cutting put on by the Seattle Department of Transportation and Picture Perfect Queen Anne, in honor of new pedestrian improvements on along Queen Anne Ave N.
From 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. tomorrow, members of Picture Perfect Queen Anne, a volunteer-based neighborhood alliance funded by the Seattle Department of Neighborhoods and Office of Economic Development, will be installing plants around the new pedestrian plaza at Queen Anne Ave N and W Galer St, as well as curb bulbs near the new crosswalks at Queen Anne Ave N and W McGraw Street. The group welcomes anyone interested in assisting with the planting throughout the day.
At 3 p.m. the ribbon cutting and ceremony will take place at the pedestrian plaza (Queen Anne Ave N and W Galer St.) with SDOT Director Grace Crunican.
The project was requested by Picture Perfect Queen Anne, who is working to revitalize Queen Anne Ave N from Galer to McGraw to provide a vibrant pedestrian and family-safe street-scape, through the Neighborhood Street Fund and funding by the Bridging the Gap Levy.
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4 responses so far ↓
1 John DeRosa // Oct 2, 2009 at 2:34 pm
Jeeze, I wouldn't call the improvements at QAAN & W. Galer St. a “plaza.” I'd just call it a useful narrowing of the street at that intersection. A plaza is something you stroll down, yes? It has only four steps of strolling…
I think it's festivity-inflation to conclude it's worthy of a ribbon-cutting ceremony. I agree that it's effective, and the job appears to be well done. But since a building wasn't involved, and no substantial structure was saved or renovated, it doesn't measure up to a ceremony. Where does the ribbon get strung up, at the curb between two trees?
2 vanderleun // Oct 2, 2009 at 6:34 pm
This is a blatherfest just slightly above a celebration of the dual speed bumps on sixth ave west. I guess we are assuming that Seattle pedestrians are going t0o become even more inept in the future. Perhaps we can have a cluster of city supplied helmets so the poor babes can get across the street.
3 John DeRosa // Oct 2, 2009 at 9:34 pm
Jeeze, I wouldn't call the improvements at QAAN & W. Galer St. a “plaza.” I'd just call it a useful narrowing of the street at that intersection. A plaza is something you stroll down, yes? It has only four steps of strolling…
I think it's festivity-inflation to conclude it's worthy of a ribbon-cutting ceremony. I agree that it's effective, and the job appears to be well done. But since a building wasn't involved, and no substantial structure was saved or renovated, it doesn't measure up to a ceremony. Where does the ribbon get strung up, at the curb between two trees?
4 vanderleun // Oct 3, 2009 at 1:34 am
This is a blatherfest just slightly above a celebration of the dual speed bumps on sixth ave west. I guess we are assuming that Seattle pedestrians are going t0o become even more inept in the future. Perhaps we can have a cluster of city supplied helmets so the poor babes can get across the street.