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Like my dad used to follow me from room to room turning the lights out behind me, the city’s parks department is pinching pennies this winter by turning out the lights on Seattle’s tennis courts. Luckily for Capitol Hill, Cal Anderson’s courts will be one of five in the city that remain lighted through winter. Earn it, fixie bike stunt guy. Earn it.
MOST PARKS TENNIS COURT LIGHTS GO OFF FOR THE WINTER TO SAVE ENERGY
As an energy-saving measure, for the winter months Seattle Parks and Recreation lights the tennis courts only at five major locations:
• Lower Woodland Park, Aurora Avenue N and N 59th Street, 10 courts
• Bobby Morris Playfield at Cal Anderson Park, corner of 11th Avenue E and E Pine Street, two courts
• Rainier Playfield, 3700 S Alaska, four courts
• Solstice Park (formerly Lincoln Park Annex, 7400 Fauntleroy Way SW, six courts
• Meadowbrook Playfield, 10533 35th Avenue NE, six courts
Lights will return to all lighted courts when Daylight Savings Time returns on Sunday, March 14, 2010.
Parks offers indoor courts at the Amy Yee Tennis Center, 2000 Martin Luther King, Jr. Way S, from 6 a.m. to 10:30 p.m. Monday through Friday and from 7 a.m. to 9:30 p.m. on Saturday and Sunday. Please call 206-684-4764 to make reservations, or visit the web at http://www.seattle.gov/parks/Athletics/Tennisct.htm for information about the Tennis Center.
I think they do this every year.
Sort of recall the Miller tennis courts being the winter ones one year.
Didn’t say they didn’t
that it’s daylight saving time. No S.
It’s nice that you are pretending we still have tennis courts in Cal Anderson. Even when the mobs toting kick-balls and fixies are gone their black crud layering the court surface seriously impedes playability.
Who cares whether they are called tennis courts or not, at least when they are used for more than tennis, more people have access to use the surface.
If you want playability perhaps you should join a tennis club. You could also wear your white sweater vest when you play.
I think you’ve complained about this before when justin posted about the dodgeballer frenzy awhile back. I’m afraid my position stands the same, similar to — above me…I am a man of efficiency and 50 dodgeballers trumps two tennis players. And I highly doubt the court can’t be used for tennis the next day while the dodgeballers are still in their PBR tall-boys induced coma. If your game is that serious…then yah, I’m sure there is a tennis club you can join.
Double burn.
You’re free to have opinions, but rules are rules and tennis guy is right. I was told by the parks department to call 911 to report non-tennis use of the courts! Which seems extreme, but shows they take abuse of expensive sports facilities seriously.