Next, you bring up some great points Mattw. This should definitely be an agenda at the neighborhood council meetings that fall into this district and most likely should be an early agenda item on the soon-to-be-newly formed Capitol Hill Community Council.

I (8blockwalk) haven’t really taken a position on it, but I guess I got included in the ‘blogged about it’ category. I know it’s gonna be fighter jets, and I walked away thinking about that. I know people at the meeting were definitely mad about it. I’m not super excited about it, but I don’t hate it. I liked the pictures of Big Rig at burning man, and I thought the ability to climb into the structure was pretty cool. I don’t see from the design meeting how this will really be as interesting a piece. Big Rig was theme art for Burning Man. Is the theme of Capitol Hill really as simple as anti-war? Really?

What I was mostly interested in is what sort of changes the hill is going to go through in the next 8 years. One of the best comments at the design meeting was a woman asking about adding additional crosswalks on the construction route. Sound Transit didn’t have an answer, but I hope they don’t forget it. It’s already not-fun crossing both streets on that route, and once they start pulling debris and tunnel dirt out, we’re going to have a non-stop parade of dump trucks on the hill, and you can bet they’re a bit more dangerous than the looking-for-parking crowd.