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Where to next for Birmingham area skaters?

photo - jflint/Flickr

Photo: Untitled. jflint/Flickr.

That’s the question being asked by many of them as they learned that the skate ramps they’d recently created on the site of the old Terminal Station – and next to the 5th Avenue North on ramp to I-20/59 – had been removed early yesterday by the Alabama Department of Transportation.  The makeshift ramps had been constructed as a result of the dismantling of the Homewood Central Park skate ramp this summer.

Skaters get creative in Birmingham

Working on a new skate ramp

Photo: GAL Photography

Those of you that use the 5th Avenue North ramp to access Interstates 20/59 or 65 may only have a second to notice that there’s been a few changes in the landscape over there in recent weeks because of the removal of the skate park from Homewood’s Central Park in July.

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One last look at the ramps

Skate ramps at 7 a.m., Homewood Park. acnatta/Flickr

acnatta/Flickr

We headed over to Homewood’s Central Park early this morning (approximately 7 a.m.) to get this photo – probably one of the last of the skate park ramps before they were disassembled today (al.com video) following last night’s vote by the city’s Parks and Recreation Board to take them down because of increased issues.

What do you think?