Carousel Prompts Mullan Work

Work on Mullan Avenue will be placed at the top of the list in master planning efforts to improve Coeur d’Alene’s Four Corners region. The road is one of the major arteries into the Four Corners, which runs from Independence Point to the Bureau of Land Management corridor’s western boundary near the east end of Riverstone. City Administrator Jim Hammond told The Press on Friday that there are two reasons the Mullan Avenue portion of the process was moving more quickly than expected. “Public safety was probably my priority,” Hammond said. “I’ve been up and down that street enough in the summer and you see people running back and forth with cars passing in between pedestrians - it’s just not safe.” The second reason the city is moving forward with designs for Mullan Avenue, Hammond said, is the Coeur d’Alene Carousel Foundation. The foundation, which was created in 2010 and hopes to install a carousel near Memorial Field, has found a donor willing to give the foundation $500,000 if it can generate $250,000 in community donations/ Keith Cousins , Coeur d’Alene Press. More here. (Shawn Gust’s Coeur d’Alene Press photo, with help from pilot Jim Van Sky from Big Country Helicopter: Mullan Avenue & the 4 Corners)

Question: Are you looking forward to the return of the old Carousel?