12-14-2020, 04:41 PM
(12-13-2020, 03:40 PM)Bytor Wrote:Obviously hard to know who is actually against the bypass. Anecdotally, speaking with people I know that own businesses downtown Elmira would love a by-pass. I think it has been put on the back burner do to it being a regional issue, if the township had the ability to build this they would have done it ages ago.(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.
Not sure if you have been downtown Elmira recently, but the camel's back already broke decades ago. I think traffic bypassing the downtown would have a minimum, if any effect on overall sales. Obviously a much nicer of a town, but St. Jacobs downtown has definitely seen the benefits of reduced tracker trailer traffic zooming down the main street.
Sorry to go off topic slightly.