This week South District (Wards 5&6) candidate Charles Sampson posted the following on Front Porch Forum: "In a recent post to Ward 5 FPF, Councilor Mason provided an update on
the City’s plans for the Champlain Parkway. He writes: “Potential
changes [connecting Pine Street to Queen City Park Road; roundabouts;
separate bike and pedestrian paths] may be considered after the
project is complete.” The weakness in the City’s approach to this
project is glaring. First, the administration proposes spending $44
million in mixed funding to build a road that fails to meet
connectivity and complete streets standards, then suggests that later
on the City, on it’s own dime, will make the costly
corrections
Costs for mismanaging the Parkway project
include forcing South End residents to endure truck traffic for 25
years after the C1 [“road to nowhere”] segment of the roadway was
completed from Shelburne to Home while it was, and remains, closed.
Second, it includes devoting a 1.6 mile swath of our crucial
Enterprise Zone--the key to our future as a high tech creative
hub--to a redundant highway from Home to Lakeside. Third, if fails to
conserve the Englesby Brook ravine as protected natural area helping
preserve our lake water quality, instead bottling it up under the new
road. Over $11 million in combined federal, state, and local funds
could be saved by canceling C2, the segment from Home to Lakeside,
even as we open up that area to job creating, tax paying economic
development. The hiatus that the City created by dithering for 25
years is what has led to the use of this publicly-owned right of way
as car dealership storage and inefficient surface parking.
When you’re in a hole, you don’t keep digging. The public needs to weigh in on alternative designs for this 1960s limited-access highway that we can’t afford and shouldn’t desire. Vote the public interest on March 7. Charles Simpson, Candidate for Council, South District. '
When you’re in a hole, you don’t keep digging. The public needs to weigh in on alternative designs for this 1960s limited-access highway that we can’t afford and shouldn’t desire. Vote the public interest on March 7. Charles Simpson, Candidate for Council, South District. '
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