Road diet needs greens
Volunteers can help to replant a median on Government Street, the start of a green makeover for most of the the thoroughfare
Government Street's road diet succeeded at slowing traffic and revitalizing the corridor, but its medians—planted with vegetation that couldn't handle Louisiana's increasingly extreme summers and winters—have largely died.
Now Clean Pelican is leading a coalition to replant one median at Government and Jefferson Highway, near Goodwood Park, on June 20 from 8 a.m. to noon. They want volunteers, and you can register here.
The project is separate from a larger Government Street median replanting effort to come, but aims to serve as a model for maintaining public spaces where the parish lacks resources—and to show residents, through on-site educational info, what the corridor could ultimately look like.
Partners include Baton Rouge Green, Goodwood Property Owners Association, CARBO Landscape Architecture, GroundWorks and Mid City Merchants, with $10,000 in parish funding from council members Laurie Adams and Jennifer Racca.
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Mukul Verma
