Plaza Closed –Catch Basin Drain Failed
The City has closed the Downtown Plaza, as a catch basin drain in the road has failed on the N. Division St. end of the plaza. They have removed the bricks and need to have concrete work done to repair the drain. The Plaza will be closed through the weekend, and perhaps a few days longer due to the time needed to cure the concrete as well as pending weather.
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ReplyDeletePlease make it permanent -- no more cars & trucks on the Downtown Plaza.
Hire a contractor with American workers please.
ReplyDeleteThey were warned when they openned it to traffic....that this wasn't made for vehicle traffic. A first grader could figure that out!
ReplyDeletei wish they never opened it to vehicle traffic in the first place.
ReplyDeleteI seem to remember that there was talk of the roadbed not being able to sustain vehicular traffic when the former Mare opened the downtown plaza back up years ago. Could this be the first on many such failures?
ReplyDeleteThey better do a whole lot more than that if it is going to continue as a street for motor vehicles.
ReplyDeleteits a wonder the whole da*n city doesnt fail, with all the dumba$$es running it....they cant even do the upkeep on the downtown plaza.....why dont we just close the whole city so all the roads can be repaired,,,,,,yeah right that will never happen,,getting the roads fixed that is...
ReplyDeleteThat's terrible for the business owners downtown. They're struggling enough as it is.
ReplyDeleteThey should leave it CLOSED to traffic!
ReplyDeleteI see that all of the resident engineers are chiming in. Thanks for all the expert opinions.
ReplyDeleteThis is a good time to consider tearing the "plaza" crap out and putting the actual road back in, maybe with some on-street parking. The grand "plaza" experiment has failed. More vehicular traffic is better for the businesses on that stretch of Main Street.
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ReplyDeleteHow brilliant -- throwing more tax dollars away to save the property owners on the Plaza.
The right thing is to close it to vehicles now and revamp the plaza, but those owners won't spend 10 cents of their money for that.
Opening the plaza to traffic did nothing to help the businesses downtown. People don't want to shop downtown anymore. When are the powers that be going to realize this?
ReplyDeleteRenovate those buildings and have some really nice executive apartments downtown and you'll see that are flourish. Salisbury wanted to be a CITY (or atleast Barry wanted it to be) so build it like a CITY and stop screwing around!