Update: I was contacted by the Downtown Spokane Partnership (DSP) about the first article reference below. Understandably, they have some concerns about the statement attributed to Ann Deasy of the City of Spokane regarding avoiding downtown altogether during this time of construction. Turns out, Ann didn't specify avoiding downtown in her interview, but said to avoid the construction area in general on the days cited for intersection closures.
The DSP wants to encourage you to patronize downtown businesses, especially during times like this when business may be slow due to construction. And Ann herself has an idea for how to help out: “If you have a favorite restaurant downtown in the work area, try to get there and support the business during the work." You heard her. Get out there and eat some food. I keep hearing good things about Wild Sage so I'm going to head down ASAP. Will report back.
Here's the original post:
For those of you that have been complaining about construction on Second Avenue in downtown Spokane, looks like conditions are going to get worse before they get better. Some major intersections will be closed today, tomorrow and Thursday for paving. City of Spokane Public Information Coordinator Ann Deasy actually said, “I would suggest avoiding the downtown area entirely.” Hmmm.. my office is downtown. Wonder if the boss would take this into consideration and let me stay home the rest of the week.
Here are details from the Spokesman-Review on which interesections will be closed and when.
And speaking of construction, the economic downturn hasn't necessarily been a bad thing for projects in the City of Spokane. Several projects are being moved forward in order to take advantage of low construction prices stemming from the poor economy. Here's more information on that story.
2 comments:
I think it is great to do more projects now while the prices are low, one it saves money and two puts a lot of people back to work.
I have only had a problem with 2nd once, they day of the SRTC Visioning at Adams School. :)
Leave it to me to make you drive through a minefield to get to a public meeting :) I haven't had a whole lot of problem with it myself but have had a lot of people complain about it to me. And this morning it diverted my bus route, putting me a lot closer to my office. Except that the driver wouldn't let me out there and I had to ride all the way to the Plaza even though we drove right by my building.
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