Good lord, I hope they incorporate the elevation. A mini Wallos style ditch or modern version of Vancouver’s snake run would be excellent. I suppose we’d better brace ourselves for a host of “Just make stairs or flatten it out and make ledges” arguments, but it seems a real chance for diversity will be lost if the elevation potentials are ignored in the design. Geth’s got a good opportunity to make something truly different, it just may be a different type of different than the way Airspeed usually thinks, different.
Come to think of it, I don’t think PDX skaters realize that the next park (after Gabriel) is going to be a designated street plaza.
I attended a meeting with the parks commissioner and Parks staff. Ed Benedict is slated to be street-plaza like. There is supposed to be 30% transition. People who are working on this would like to see the transition be a street-like situation like the old KGW planter banks.
That would be fine as long as it works for no-pushing skateboarding. Seems like we can accomodate the flavor of the street plaza but still make something worthwhile for a transition skater to visit. Opposing two transitions in a mini-ramp or half-pipe sort of arrangement would work for me. Although I would prefer a bowl.
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Kilwag
Good lord, I hope they incorporate the elevation. A mini Wallos style ditch or modern version of Vancouver’s snake run would be excellent. I suppose we’d better brace ourselves for a host of “Just make stairs or flatten it out and make ledges” arguments, but it seems a real chance for diversity will be lost if the elevation potentials are ignored in the design. Geth’s got a good opportunity to make something truly different, it just may be a different type of different than the way Airspeed usually thinks, different.
Come to think of it, I don’t think PDX skaters realize that the next park (after Gabriel) is going to be a designated street plaza.
Welsh Pete
incorporate it. bank, ditch, wallos, yes!
Estes
This is the best comic…….you need to include Inouye into the comics cause this one speaks to him.
Kilwag- Can you prove it with a plan yet? A Skate Plaza will be a tea kettle for skating……HOT!
Kilwag
It’s just what I hear. There’s no plan yet because there’s no proposal-bidding thingy yet. Conahan, help me out here..
Conahan
I attended a meeting with the parks commissioner and Parks staff. Ed Benedict is slated to be street-plaza like. There is supposed to be 30% transition. People who are working on this would like to see the transition be a street-like situation like the old KGW planter banks.
That would be fine as long as it works for no-pushing skateboarding. Seems like we can accomodate the flavor of the street plaza but still make something worthwhile for a transition skater to visit. Opposing two transitions in a mini-ramp or half-pipe sort of arrangement would work for me. Although I would prefer a bowl.
JF
yeah, snake run at Gabriel, that’s what I wanna see. I’m fine with the street plaza, it will keep the kids away from the other parks.
Estes
Push, trick, stop-repeat is the formula for street skating. A snake run-street plaza is cutting edge.