Sign of Spring: Grey to Green on Comox Street

Not the shoot of the crocus in the dirt or the bud of the cherry on the branch.  I mean the asphalt in the road of the greenway to come:

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This stretch of the Comox-Helmcken Greenway is under construction, soon to look like this:

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Sorry for the pathetic little pic; that’s the size the City posts here, with more details on the project.

These three blocks of Comox west of Denman were part of one of the first greenways in North America when constructed with special pavers, furniture and tree lighting back in the early 1970s.  The story of this traffic calming project – maybe the first of its kind in North America – is worthy of retelling.  Which I’ll do in a subsequent post.