Countdown to almost-carless Alki on Sunday: Flyers, activities

If your car is parked along Alki tonight, you’ll likely find a flyer like that on it by morning. SDOT tells WSB they’re being distributed tonight as part of the outreach to make sure everyone knows about the Seattle Summer Streets Spectacular – sequel to Car-Free Day – on Alki this Sunday. We reported “practical details” last night, including the impending arrival of the no-parking signs, which we confirmed tonight are up now:

A few other notes, counting down to Sunday’s 9 am-5 pm shutdown from Harbor Ave/California Way to Alki Ave/63rd SW:
–The day begins, of course, with the first-ever West Seattle 5K (WSB sponsor; you can still register online)
Cascade Bicycle Club now has its full schedule of events for the day online (including kids’ bike parades at 1 and 3 pm); see the schedule here.
Coastal has announced its “Rockin’ Surf Stage” lineup, with a mini skate ramp and live music; see the poster, with band names and times, here.
CoolMom will have a booth offering face painting and a puppet show
Sustainable West Seattle will be nearby, with bike-maintenance demos and more
Full Tilt Ice Cream tells us they’ll have a special bike out and about – one of many small surprises we expect to see on shutdown day
–Informational displays are planned too – including the King County Wastewater Treatment Division planning a display near the site of the 53rd Avenue Pump Project, with updates on how that project is going (now in its second year and scheduled for completion this fall).

We’ll keep the daily updates going through Sunday, at which time we will of course report “live” from the shutdown zone as we did last year. If there’s information you’re looking for and not finding, please write a comment (or e-mail us: editor@westseattleblog.com) – after last night’s report, for example, there was a question about how those with disabilities would be accommodated – here’s the comment, followed by the reply we obtained from the city.

4 Replies to "Countdown to almost-carless Alki on Sunday: Flyers, activities"

  • chase May 28, 2009 (9:32 am)

    We got our phone message from the city last night about the bike day. Good reminder from the city. Now we hope everyone plays by the rules?

  • David May 28, 2009 (5:07 pm)

    Is there a reason Seattle Summer Streets isn’t taking place like, well, in the summer?

  • JanS May 28, 2009 (6:45 pm)

    David…if they wait until after the first day of summer, the weather may be crummy…so we’ll take what we can get, and call this wonderful weather summer :)

  • WSB May 28, 2009 (7:01 pm)

    This wasn’t even the earliest one – Ballard had one earlier this month. I haven’t asked SDOT the question but I would speculate it’s because, during the actual summer, there’s too much else going on. This doesn’t conflict with much. But going forward on into the summer, there’s something almost every weekend day :) – TR

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