Officials from Maryland’s State Highway Administration (SHA) report that the sidewalk replacement project that began this spring in Berlin is expected to be complete by the end of the summer. The $400,000 project consists of the installation of new sidewalk along Main Street from Route 346 to Tripoli Street.
“Crews have completed the south side of the project and are roughly halfway through the northbound direction,” SHA spokesman Charlie Gischlar said.
The sidewalk being replaced is more than 20 years old and in poor condition, according to Gischlar. The new sidewalk will meet the latest accessibility requirements. It will be five feet wide and features handicap accessible ramps as well as detectable warning surfaces, or the bumps that enable a visually impaired person to know a road is ahead.
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I was in Berlin Maryland Monday and you wouldn't believe how many people were walking downtown and many sitting at tables eating in front of restaurants. They don't have large parking lots or a parking garage, but there had to be at least 100 people out on the sidewalks not counting those that were in some of the shops doing some shopping. This was in a three block span, I wasn't all over town. It's not downtown Salisbury's layout that keeps it from progressing, it's Salisbury itself.
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