Construction woes in the borough
The borough is improving its streets this summer with what seems like numerous construction projects. And while road improvement is a noble goal, its putting a serious crimp in my everyday routine.Although I live about a block from our lovely offices here on Bradford Avenue, every morning I make the trip across town to the Country Bagel and Bakery at the corner of Gay at Matlack streets for my morning snack.
But as of June 11, this simple commute has been complicated by the closing of Market Street for road construction next to the Justice Center.
Now there is no easy way to get from the west side of the borough to the east side. Well less easy than normal I should say, what with West Chester's inordinate number of one-way streets.
So what do I do? Find a new route via Barnard Street or the reversal of Darlington Street to one-way southbound? I guess that will have to do, because the meager offerings of the DLN snack machine simply are not an option. Although I could go for a danish.
Tom Hope, Web Editor
1 Comments:
Can you imagine the traffic nightmare this structure will create on this corner of Market Street once it is completed? This is just the beginning.
Once occupied, there will be numerous staff and visiting drivers who will go in and out of that building for various reasons every second of every day who will be clogging up traffic in that small area and Market Street, and everyone will suffer from this potential nightmare every day!
What were they thinking? There's also a vertical parking lot across the street which will create more of a traffic mess once the building is fully occupied because you know, more visitors and staff of that building will park there.
People will find it worthless to sit in traffic wait, and could be potential victims of accidents that may happen because of this building sitting on a major thoroughfare just to go to West Chester for whatever reason.
This is the best example of West Chester land-locked desperateness that I have ever seen. I hope that the borough officials will learn from this when they consider future projects like this.
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