Saturday, July 24, 2010

Under water? Does it matter?


"Under water" is a popular (or, rather, unpopular) phrase these days. When you owe more on your car than it's worth, you are "under water". Sometimes, it is referred to as "upside-down". Same with that house you bought. Maybe you paid $640,000 for it, and it's worth only $380,000 today. You're "under water" or upside-down.

There is a sidewalk in Woodstock that is under water - literally. It's right in front of the Woodstock Recreation Center on Lake Avenue at the corner of Kimball Street. OK, so it rains a little (well, a lot) and the sidewalk floods for a while. Is this important?

It's important because this sidewalk is used almost daily by physically disabled adults who live at Walden Oaks and who go to 3 Brothers Restaurant for meals. Some use electric wheelchairs or scooters and, when they get to this sidewalk, they must motor out into Lake Avenue to pass the flooded sidewalk.

What can the City of Woodstock do with this sidewalk?

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