I recently griped about the seeming inadequacy of the the car-free Volunteer Park plan, based on the map published in Thursday’s Seattle Times (and included in my previous post).
I have only just received a link to the City website about the events, and a map (reproduced here) showing that the road past the museum (SAAM) and the meadows is indeed being closed to cars for the event, though that past the wading pool / play area (a seeming no-brainer) will remain open to cars!
Obvious questions:
- Why did the Times get it wrong?
- Why did it take the City’s contract PR people so long to send out the info?
- How come I’ve never heard of the “Western Loop”, that’s being closed for the events?
- If that’s the Western Loop, where’s the (insert compass point here) loop?
- But (still) why bother when traffic in the park is no big deal anyway?
- and (finally) how about a Car Free Arboretum day?
http://www.seattle.gov/parks/walk.htm
Andrew, thanks for the update on this. But it looks like on the grid (from the link I included above derived from your City website link) that the Galer St. entrance that passes by the wading pool area is actually closed (of course that is not noted on the map). That makes a bit more sense since that one way street wouldn’t have anywhere to go with the “western loop” closed.