The work at 11 crossings at seven locations across the neighborhood is part of the city’s periodic retouches under its community crosswalk program and includes pavement repairs, repainting, and preservation.
The origination of the CD’s red, black, and green crosswalks was driven by the community, not City Hall.
CHS reported here in 2016 as the city recognized the neighborhood effort and formalized what had been a grassroots project.
“Our community was being completely erased,” Wyking Garrett, president and CEO of the Africatown Community Land Trust, told the Seattle Medium about the origins of the first crossings. “It was on a trajectory to be as if we were never here. And I think it should never be as if we were never here.”
Today, SDOT supports the Pan-African design at seven locations:
- E. Yesler Way and 14th Ave
- E. Yesler Way and 20th Ave
- 23rd Ave and S. Jackson
- 22nd Ave and S. Jackson
- MLK Jr. Way and Alder
- 24th at E. Cherry
- 23rd Ave at E Jefferson
Similar work has been undertaken in years past during drier months to clean, repair, and repaint Capitol Hill’s Pride rainbow crosswalks.
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