Sound Transit is hoping a new initiative will help address graffiti at Capitol Hill Station.
Meanwhile, a new $4.7 million contract will hopefully help clean up the filthy facility.
Sound Transit says a new art installation at the west entrance to Capitol Hill Station across Broadway is hoped to be a solution rolled out to its facilities that are “highly targeted by graffiti.”
New art panels installed at the station entrance are part of a pilot project organized by graffiti artist Danny Melbihess to showcase the artform and hopefully cut down on clean-up costs by discouraging tagging elsewhere in the station. “It’s a different approach than hammering down or painting over,” a Sound Transit official said. “Graffiti has always been a thing. We can’t get rid of it entirely, but we can channel it.”
Under the program, Sound Transit says Melbihess “curated a group of graffiti writers” to produce art for the project. Two 6×4 Dibond panels are painted offsite and installed at the west entrance where they will be displayed for a couple months before begin rotated out for new work.
The first in the series features work by artist Aerub.
Sound Transit says it “hopes to create a long-standing partnership and some goodwill with graffiti writers” with the new pilot program.
More to the point might be a new contract pointed out this week by Seattle Times transportation reporter Mike Lindblom.
Listed in the new contracts roster for the upcoming Sound Transit board meeting is a new five-year deal with the Clean & Happy washing services company to provide spray washing services.
The high pressure hoses will be most welcome at Capitol Hill Station. CHS reported here two years ago on the increasingly filthy conditions around the station as ridership totals reached and surpassed pre-pandemic levels. Adding to the filth, Sounds Transit’s Capitol Hill Station pigeon relocation program has mostly been a failure.
From the inbox: the @soundtransit signed a $4.6m contract to pay for the next five years of pressure washing at stations, which in some spots is sorely needed. pic.twitter.com/JabQpMaCqL
— Mike Lindblom (@MikeLindblom) October 22, 2024
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