Over the weekend, TriMet re-installed the cool 70’s era benches that use to grace the former transit mall on SW 5th and 6th avenues. I was surprised to see them return since much of what TriMet took away has never returned. The sculptures are back, yet the cool dome shelters are forever just memories now.
The new benches are so strikingly similar to the old benches I want to assume they have been refurbished and repainted. The wood is obviously new and looks to be teak or some exotic hardwood. Hopefully the gutter punks won’t vandalize them too soon. Let us enjoy them first. If you are out and about and need a place to rest, plop yourself down on one of these spots, knowing it may have been around when Carter was president.
An example of what they used to look like before the construction began.
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Yeah, the great thing about these is that they get wet and stay wet so you can’t use them 95% of the year
The new ones I saw have new wood and the water was beading off.
You know those shiny new stainless steel garbage can holders? The one outside my building is already covered with black crap because the smokers stub out their ciggies on the top.
Grrrr. I hate that. One thing I noticed is that they didn’t account for recycling. One would have thought that in this day and age, TriMet would have had them built to handle recyclables in a different space.
Dieselboi, they tried something like that with some older Ziba-designed trash cans, which had a separate basket on the side with three can-shaped holes in a lid that you could lift to get to the recyclables. The lids got the crap beat out of them on most of the trash cans I saw. And lots of people stuffed garbage into the recyclables area, especially on overly full trash cans.
I think this time they went for a more robust solution.
I see they’ve added the “don’t sleep on me” dividers.
I suppose “don’t sleep on me” is one reason for the dividers, my other thought was “don’t skateboard on me.”
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