Fri, 18:52 Birth Week 1976 Local Landmark # 12: Freeway Park, Seattle, WA
Opened: July 4, 1976.
World's first park built on a lid over an active interstate, built to mitigate the impact of Interstate 5 on downtown Seattle (this stretch of freeway opened to traffic in 1967).
Expansion westward to First Hill with stairways and wheelchair ramps opened 1984.
Landscape renovation 2010.
Connects to Seattle Convention Center to the north; Union Square to the west; First Hill to the east. https://t.co/TyBfb14JhO

Fri, 18:52: After our picnic at Freeway Park, Laney and Barbara and I went over to Olympia coffee for coffee (or a London Fog in my case), sitting in the lovely U.S. Bank Center lobby. https://t.co/5iEbqfDgAq