Here’s a heads up on downtown construction and road closures that was issued by City Hall on Friday: A new public plaza is planned in the parking lot north of City Hall that will include seating and gathering space for events. In appreciation of the 125-year partnership between WWP/Avista and the people of Spokane, the newly developed City Hall Plaza will be a gift from Avista Corp. shareholders to the City of Spokane. Work on City Hall Plaza will begin…
Say hello to your friendly neighborhood road construction crew (on Montgomery). Apparently they’re close to finishing here in Emerson-Garfield, but they only intend to do half of the western portion of Montgomery, Mansfield, Carlisle, Jackson and York this year. No one quite seems to know why.
The Spokane City Council is currently looking at the Photo Red program to see if they want to recommend to the Spokane Police Department to move forward with retaining or amending the contract language. Neighborhood councils like ours need to be proactive when it comes time for open discussion as to where those funds may be allocated. There is expected to be discussion as to using some of the funds for purposes other than neighborhood traffic calming projects such as…
Neighborhood drivers will probably have noted that traffic counters are out on Montgomery Ave (blocks west of N. Monroe). With any luck, these are the prelude to the ambitious traffic circles that the Emerson-Garfield Neighborhood Council proposed about a year ago. A bit of background: We’ve had to push just to get this far. Initially, we received a suggestion from the relevant city department that if the traffic light at the Montgomery/Monroe intersection seemed to be the cause of the speeding…
The Spokane Transit Authority is holding a free, all-corridor — which pretty much includes everywhere there’s a major route — public open house on Wednesday, April 10 from 4:30 to 7pm at the Lincoln Center [map]. The STA will use this event to showcase its proposed changes to the corridors — and there are some big ones under consideration that will effect the public transportation near you. By all accounts, these changes will be positive and, if enacted in full,…