Business owners on the west side of Main Street in New Milford are upset
Since May 4, the road has been closed from the north finish of the Village Green to the Bank Street intersection due to a building plan on the road and sidewalk.
The roadwork is scheduled to be finished by Memorial Day. Sidewalks channel the Village Green will be commissioned after that date.
Some 1,400 feet of the road along the Green is being dug up and reconstructed. In hopes of negligence engine vehicular traffic, lifted crosswalks -- assembled in a ramp type with a prosaic stage area on tip -- will be commissioned at 3 points heading to the Green.
Business owners along the Green mentioned this week the work couldn't advance at a more untimely time.
"The week up to Mother's Day, outward of December, is our busiest time of the year," mentioned Larry Schneider , owners of the present emporium Down on Main Street.
"I've ! been lucky," he said. "Up until Friday (May 11), they didn't have the road ripped up in front of my store."
"Customers could go from Railroad Street, up and by parking lots to advance out by the post office and spin correct on Main Street to obtain down to us," mentioned Mr. Schneider, whose store is located nearby the Bank Street intersection. "Now they can't do that."
Brad Tranfield, owners of Robertson Jewelers at 43 Main St., mentioned his business was entirely shut off final week, and will be once again this week and beyond, since a torn-up roadbed and building equipment.
"I comprehend this work has to be done, but we subject the timing," Mr. Tranfield said. "This is a really active time of year for us, Mother's Day, graduations, weddings, and we're basically shut down and prevented from portion customers."
At the Village Green Cleaners , opposite friend Elaine Krause was shepherding customers by the back door, past t! he cleaning apparatus and to the front opposite to tumble off ! and collect up their clothes.
"Our solid customers are still forthcoming in, but folks who wish to tumble off promenade dresses who can't simply obtain here are going someplace else, I'm sure," Ms. Krause said.
Mayor Pat Murphy apologized Monday for "the inconvenience," but added, "It's always a bad time to do road work."
The work will be done, however, in time for scheduled festivities on and around the locale green, she said.
"We have a tiny window to work in," the mayor said. "The blacktop plants do not open until the final week of April, and they close by November."
"We were going to do the work final year," she said, "but had to wait for is to Department of Transportation to obtain the Department of Energy and Environmental Protection to respond. By then, it was winter."
Add to that a deadline for using the town's $200,000 Small Town Economic Assistance Program Grant awarded is to project, a! nd the Public Works Department had no selection but to beginner the plan this month, Mayor Murphy said.
The work was awarded to Colonna Concrete Asphalt Paving of West Haven , that bid $353,157.
For Mr. Tranfield and Star Nails owners Lee Sun , having the road ripped up in front of their businesses by May creates no sense.
"The core of locale is filled with void stores," Mr. Tranfield said. "Those of us who are still open are working hard to keep the synergy of getting people in to downtown and in to our stores."
"This couldn't advance at a worse time for me," Ms. Sun said, as she sat in her void spike reception room at 45 Main St. because people paid for Mother's Day present certificates for manicures to be done this week.
She remarked, "We do a lot of business right away with proms and college graduations."
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"The core of locale is filled with void st! ores. The of us who are still open are working hard to keep the synergy! of getting people in to downtown and in to our stores."
Brad Tranfield, owners of Robertson Jewelers
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