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Design Perspectives By Clair Enlow |
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February 25, 2009
Design Perspectives: Stations at the crossroads: Can this law be saved?
By CLAIR ENLOW
Special to the Journal
Special to the Journal
The intersection of McClellan Street and Rainier Avenue is straight out of the late auto age, where cars take precedence over pedestrians.
There's a gas station, an auto supply store with parking, a big apron of parking for a drugstore-grocery and the back wall of a big-box hardware store. At a bus stop nearby, passengers wait for a Metro bus to fight its way through the heavy traffic on Rainier.
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