The Washington State Dept. of Transportation (WSDOT) and the Flatiron Construction Co. will begin holding regular monthly meetings on the first Wednesday of each month during the construction scheduled for Montlake. The first meeting will be Wednesday, November 5, 2014, from 4:30 pm to 6:30 pm at the Graham Visitors’ Center in the Arboretum. All Montlake residents are welcome to attend and get any questions answered they may have about the construction activities.
Montlake residents may be interested in the Community Construction Management Plan which is available on the website. This is a 31-page booklet detailing how the construction company will try to minimize the negative impact of construction. Issues they address in the Plan include air quality and dust, aesthetics, glare and lighting, over-water and under-water construction, local traffic, utilities, vegatation and tree management, erosion control, activities in the staging area, day and night work schedule, and much more. To report concerns about construction, property owners can also go to the “Question and Concerns” section of the website: SR520OrangePage.
Removal of the “Ramps to Nowhere” has begun. WSDOT recently held a contest asking people to submit Haiku poems about the ramps. Everyone who submitted a poem will receive a chunk of the concrete from the ramps. Chunks of the ramps which were to be part of the R. H. Thompson Expressway, are also being saved for the monument to commenorate the citizen-activists who organized and stopped the construction of the Expressway. It would have adjoined S.R. 52o and destroyed parts of the Arboretum and many historic homes in the adjacent neighborhoods.
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