In reverse order:
The ugly:
The torn up bumpy road caused by the waterline project
Traffic delays
Stones kicking up and damaging cars
The coming Wal-Mart mess unless the Flix Driveway and Rite Aid/Aldi accesses are aligned with the signalized Wal-Mart driveway
The Bad
The waterline project will not be completed until sometime in September (town estimate). Then the road will be milled and top coated (expense shared by the town and county).
No turning lane will be constructed along William Street. Signalization is being discussed at Penora but it appears there is not enough right-away to add a turning lane. What benefit would signalization be there without a turning lane?
There is currently no plan to have the Flix theater/Rite Aid/Aldi driveways interconnect and ingress and egress across the Wal-Mart signalized driveway
People who are looking for alternate routes to travel on will be adding more traffic to roads like Aurora, Como Park Boulevard, Enchanted Forrest, etc.
The good
Waterline replacement along William Street (from Transit Road to Lake Avenue) is a good thing
William Street needed re-surfacing
People who normally travel this road have opted to find other roads to get to their destinations and have told me they will avoid using William Street in the future. That’s a good thing for people who live along William Street from Penora to Transit Road. But the lessened travel will not make up the predicted increase of 3,000 daily vehicles on William Street from the Wal-Mart operation. Oh well.
No turning lane on William Street? That would have made sense if that was constructed. I thought with that much congestion, a turning lane would be a no brainer.
We now travel differently, going on William Street is a nightmare if you hit rush hour.
It is ackward where you enter to go to Wal Mart. I do predict that will be a problem when they are open.
No money for the county highway department = no turning lane on william. It's on their list of projects, but unless money shows up from somewhere, it's not going to happen. Personally, I think that projects like this should have been done instead of all of the stimulus road resurfacing all over the state.
Considering the south of Lancaster has been developing over the past 30 years and that Transit Road had been labeled a commercial corridor for at least the last 20 years, why should one not think that the Town of Lancaster has dropped the ball in getting county, state and federal funding for improving this road?Originally Posted by yaksplat
The town and county were to work together (along with the assistance on the GBRTC) to apply for federal funding to widen William from Transit Road to Bowen Road. The cost estimate in 2008 was $15 million. The town did not apply thinking the county would and nothing has happened.
Imagine in today's world to have 15,000 vehicles travelling daily on a four mile two-lane county road and with another 3,000 daily vehicles predicted for Wal-Mart. As one Town Board opted to opnly say several years ago, "Fifty years from now they will be looking at this section of town and William Street and asking, "What the hell were they (town) thinking?"
That's the crux of the biscuit. Considering the development, William Street needs major improvement. Where's the money coming from?
I remember Stanley Keysa saying at a meeting that it takes a long time to get funding of this sort. In order to get it, you have to have a plan and then you have to push the plan.
Where's the plan?
What plan indeed? The town mantra for roads like William Street ha been, "It's a county road, there is nothing we can do about it.
Redoing the William Street water lines and repaving the road is a good as this road will get for the foreseeable future.
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