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News from King County Department of Transportation Release date: Nov. 23, 2005
Celebration marks
completion of county's The King County Road Services Division is inviting local residents to celebrate the completion of the county’s renovation work on Des Moines Memorial Drive. A short ceremony will be held Tuesday, Dec. 6 from 11 a.m. to noon at the North Highline Fire Station, 1606 S. 128th St., Burien. King County has just completed a project to improve Des Moines Memorial Drive between South 99th Street and South 128th Street. That section of roadway was repaved, restriped, and curbs, gutters, and sidewalks were added on both sides of the road. The work also included placing memorial markers in the sidewalk to honor those who died in World War I. Des Moines Memorial Drive is an eight-mile stretch of road, which winds through four local jurisdictions – King County, SeaTac, Burien and Des Moines. In 1921, original plans for the drive called for planting 1,800 elm trees to line the roadway as a "living" memorial to those who lost their lives in World War I. About 1,200 trees were actually planted, but disease, radical pruning, and utility installations decimated most of the elms. The Des Moines Memorial Drive Advisory Committee was created in 2000 with representation from King County, local cities, other interested public agencies, and concerned citizens to develop a coordinated vision for restoring and maintaining the living memorial. The new plan outlines how the local cities can also incorporate similar memorial elements in their future road improvement projects along the drive. Once Des Moines Memorial Drive is fully restored, it could have more than 1,200 memorial markers and trees placed at 80-foot intervals.
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