Courthouse Square

The City of Weatherford has gotten a lot of flak over the redesign work on the courthouse square. From the traffic flow to the parking spots to the protective walls to the sidewalks, there have been 10,001 complaints.

This isn't one of them. I think it looks fabulous.

I know that this will forever doom any aspirations of making it onto Virginia Scott's Christmas card list, but I think it's a giant leap forward. Pleasant vegetation, buried utilities, clearly-defined pedestrian pathways, lighting, handicapped accessibility, and the list goes on. I love the aesthetics. I love that the new traffic directions mean that endless jackasses can't cut the roundabout at mach 1 through Weatherford National Bank's parking area. I love that the walls mean pedestrians are more-or-less forced to cross at crosswalks instead of the mindless wandering across any handy road surface I've seen.

I've lived my whole life 3 blocks away, and I can't ever remember a time when it looked (or worked) better. I'd love to see this as the seed that sprouts through the Central Business District and beyond.