Your tax dollars at work, may, if used without vision, diminish the quality of the city's built environment

Your tax dollars at work, DDOT
Originally uploaded by rllayman

The way that Mayor Joseph Riley speaks about Charleston, the importance of beauty to the quality of life and civic society, and his laser beam focus on not doing things that diminish rather than improve the quality of the built environment and public spaces, leads me to believe that this wouldn't happen in Charleston.


Retaining wall, 2nd and K Street NW, likely constructed as part of the DDOT resurfacing project.


Traditional stone wall fencing on the 200 block of K Street NE, south side.


Typical concrete retaining wall constructed on the 900 block of 2nd Street NE, immediately to the south is extant typical stone retaining wall fencing, probably constructed during the road regrading project associated with the construction of Union Station.

If it wasn't constructed by DDOT, the streetscape project would have been a good opportunity to rebuild with stone and make the streetscape environment even better.