12-13-2020, 05:21 PM
(12-13-2020, 03:40 PM)Bytor Wrote:(12-13-2020, 02:19 PM)danbrotherston Wrote: I certainly support a bypass but I got the sense the opposition to a bypass was strictly within Elmira.
Well, look what the Charles/Duke loop did to DTK. That may only have been the straw that broke the camel's back, but we're still recovering from it today.
The city was considering ways to rejuvenate the downtown long before they made Charles and Duke into one-way streets. It sure didn't help but that was not the root of the issue -- suburban sprawl and shopping malls were a much bigger factor in the original decline. And, as we have seen, once the downward spiral starts, it's awfully hard to reverse.