Blair Avenue Improvement Project

Just a section of the full plan (see links below for full plan drawing)

I recently popped in on our Town Administrator, Duncan Wilson, to ask about what’s happening up on Blair Avenue this summer, and the reason for all the construction and road closures. He shared what’s going on along with this cool graphic (which you can also see in the hallway to the public meeting room at the library).

The entire street, all the way from Spring Street, past the post office and the schools and over to Guard Street will be re-paved and will have sidewalks on both sides. In addition, there will be some major new amenities, such as new LED Street Lighting, some Tree Planting Grates with bio-filtration under the sidewalk and Aluminum Railings at Tia’s Tacos and at the Browne’s property next door to the Post Office. See the inset details on the graphics at the links below. In addition to being a part of the Blair Avenue improvements, these amenities will serve as an example of the kinds of upgrades that can be done elsewhere in town with other improvements.

Approximately 90% of the funding for this project came from the Transportation Improvement Board through a grant that the Town of Friday Harbor applied for. Also, about $25K came from the school district – they were talking about replacing their sidewalks and the Town said, why don’t we just do it all at once, so they combined their efforts; and also a business owner who was recently doing improvements to their property contributed about $23K and Duncan said the town would do the curbs and sidewalks for them.

If you would like to view the graphic at a larger size, here are 2 choices for you (note-these files are large and may take a few moments to load):

A PDF  version (requires Acrobat Reader) or a JPEG version.

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