Does not appear they want Toledo residents at the Veterans’ Glass City Skyway dedication…
It was one thing for the price of the tickets for the big gala to celebrate the Veterans’ Glass City Skyway to be out of the price range of most people in Toledo. After reading this morning’s Toledo Blade it’s pretty hard to feel as if residents of this City are going to be welcome at the dedication ceremony and I’d hazard a guess that the officials involved won’t have to go through what the rest of us would to be able to see what is supposed to be “our bridge”:
Exactly when the bridge will open to traffic remains to be announced. It will be “during the day sometime” on Sunday, said Andrea Voogd, an Ohio Department of Transportation spokesman, who added that state officials plan to do nothing to enable people to line up to cross the landmark structure immediately after its opening.
“We’re going to discourage people from doing that,” Ms. Voogd said.
For safety and security reasons, the spokesman said, anyone who wants to go up on the bridge Saturday will be required to board shuttle buses from the Front Street lot or at the Riverside YMCA, which will be the start and finish point for the four-mile bridge walk and road race.Parking will not be available at the Riverside Y, but buses will pick up people there as a convenience for race/walk participants and for those in North Toledo within walking distance of the bridge, Ms. Voogd said.
Similarly, buses running between the casting yard and the bridge will make several stops along Front Street for the benefit of neighborhood residents.
People boarding the buses will be checked by security screeners. Among prohibited items will be chairs, umbrellas, alcoholic beverages, thermal or glass containers, coolers, aerosol sprays, backpacks, packages, posters, signs, or placards, along with anything that could be construed as a weapon.
Sounds like the security measures at the White House.
June 20th, 2007 at 3:05 pmGeez! I guess I’ll leave my slingshot and marbles at home!
How ridiculous does this have to get? If I’m going to walk 4 miles I just MIGHT want to carry a small lunch bag/cooler to hold a couple bottles of cold water!
Oh well – what the heck made me think that this endeavor would be resident friendly?
June 20th, 2007 at 9:53 pmIs anyone surprised? The way this town is run, only the elite get to attend such functions. Never mind that the Citizens are the one’s that had to puit up with construction, never mind it was we, that suffered as people we’re killed in the process, never mind that .01% of the population will get to party on it prior to it’s usefullness, Just be glad Carty didn’t stick a Toll on it…lol.
June 21st, 2007 at 6:34 amWell even more “unfriendly” to residents information is in today’s Toledo Blade:
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It seems like the blame should be on ODOT though, which really makes me wonder why we needed $650,000 worth of lights…
June 21st, 2007 at 1:30 pmShhhhh!
Those are hizzoner’s lights. He sacrificed (temporarily) a bike path to get them put up.
Coincidently, I hear that there are a duplicate set of controls for the lights in hizzoner’s office :-]
(But that’s only a rumor…
June 21st, 2007 at 1:38 pm