They come from Clark County, into New Albany across Silver Creek, and ride in the left lane on Spring Street through the very heart of what we're told is a modern, revitalizing city, in order to reach I-64, where they exit New Albany's street grid. The vast majority repeat the transit on Market Street (or sometimes Elm) for their return trip.
They degrade the roadway of a streets not designed to carry their weight, and they drive far too fast (sorry Nick, apparently you're the lone exception). Because there is no cost, either in time or money, for them to do so, they take (literally) free advantage of the pass-through with no economic advantage to the city, and with considerable economic disadvantage, compromising the quality of life for the neighborhood (yes Jeff Gahan, such concepts actually do exist here in the demolition zone "core"), and increasing the city's ultimate expense owing to the daily degradation of its infrastructure.
And this city neither acknowledges the problem, nor lifts finger one to combat it. For this reason alone -- and there are so many others -- City Hall deserves immediate censure. For refusing to address the matter, so does our city council and board of works.
Why would any downtown resident so much as consider a vote for any of them, or their keepers, ever again?
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