Buxtehude, Germany /
Stevens Avenue, Portland,
Maine
Buxtehude is the town in Germany
where the traffic study was done that
was used for justifying the funding for the Stevens Avenue Project.
Things in Buxtehude must be a lot like those in Deering Center.
Let’s take a look:
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Buxtehude, Germany – main street
through village. |
Buxtehude Canal |
 Somehow
the street look and layout are not quite matching up for
me.
This
picture above does have some relation to the Stevens
Project. Paula Craighead, the woman who started the whole mess
back in 1992, originally
wanted to build 2-foot high, 2-foot wide planters along the
length of Stevens Avenue between Ludlow Street and Walton
Street, as a “beautification” effort |
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Stevens Avenue, main street through Deering Center, Portland.
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Instead of a nice water view, we got nice asphalt and cans. It had kind
of a retro-industrial feel. The cones were added because cars were destroying the
curbs within 2 hours of their installation, as you can see by the notches on the
edges.
This was our City Council
“beautification” effort, according to them, but it just didn’t fly
with the locals, for some reason. $425,000 later, things got back to normal. |
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