Clifton Boulevard As Queen Street
Posted: Thu May 01, 2008 7:42 am
First impressions are lasting impressions.
Years ago one of my job assignments required a short trip to Charlotte, North Carolina. As I drove through the City I chanced upon Queen Street. I remember it as a wide, residential boulevard canopied by ancient trees and bordered with flowering plants and colorful planters. Charlotte is a big city with its share of shabbiness but when I think of Charlotte I think of Queen Street.
The coming improvements to Clifton Boulevard offer an opportunity to return that street to its former grandeur. Clifton could be a pleasant thoroughfare rather than another freeway though Lakewood. Why not planters and flowers? Why not traffic circles at Nicholson at Belle and at Webb? Why not a street that is a symbol of the City as a nice place to live? Why not upscale apartments with one floor living overlooking a tree lined boulevard just minutes from everything?
Years ago one of my job assignments required a short trip to Charlotte, North Carolina. As I drove through the City I chanced upon Queen Street. I remember it as a wide, residential boulevard canopied by ancient trees and bordered with flowering plants and colorful planters. Charlotte is a big city with its share of shabbiness but when I think of Charlotte I think of Queen Street.
The coming improvements to Clifton Boulevard offer an opportunity to return that street to its former grandeur. Clifton could be a pleasant thoroughfare rather than another freeway though Lakewood. Why not planters and flowers? Why not traffic circles at Nicholson at Belle and at Webb? Why not a street that is a symbol of the City as a nice place to live? Why not upscale apartments with one floor living overlooking a tree lined boulevard just minutes from everything?