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Ladies and Gentlemen, meet
your brand new . . . ROUNDABOUT!
rounda paved web
Not 100 percent completed, but now paved. No more gravel.
Considering the weather, this project moving to the finish line on schedule is pretty impressive.
rounda paved 2 web
FOTR party date, time and location to be announced . . .
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Jim: The cost of the roundabout alone is $1.7-1.9 million. There were four projects combined into the Roundabout package: 1) the actual roundabout; 2) sidewalks and “improvements” on Chance in front of the Convention Center; 3) sidewalk/improvements on Chance from the IGA to the Post Office; and 4)sidewalk/improvements on Pt. Brown from the roundabout area to the Library.
Total cost of projects is around $3 million.
Roundabouts do work. I read below that the roundabout cost close to three million. If this is true it has to be the most expensive roundabout ever built. What cost so much on this roundabout?
I hope the roundabout project turns out great. What I will not forget is how terrible the planning was for this project and others. The project should have been done at night or at least most of it. I do not think we had much inspection of the project during the construction. I expect the pavement to fail with-in a few years because the sub-base was put in during a heavy rain storm. The paving was done in poor weather also. I saw a lot of asphalt chunks and other garbage being used for back fill. This means the ditch’s may sink. I think the pavement will start cracking within two years. I hope I am wrong!
We all learned a lot about our Mayor and Public Works Director. We all know that a few of our City employees are in positions they are not qualified to be in. I am hopeful the Mayor will show some leadership and replace these people.
This really is a good Idea for the roundabout the statistic are pretty good you are less likely to be involved in a wreck and if you are it will probably be less damaging because the way and angles you drive the roundabout the big problem is if they put something big in the middle of it then we can’t see whats cumming.
amen to that, Birddog and rafael.
How about wrath? If you don’t give us all the money we want, we will close the library and lay off everyone except our favorites.
People here are not being negative. They are showing the fly in the ointment. Some choose to ignore the fly and continue to use the ointment. Others seek to remedy the situation. Yes, we will all see the roundabout when it is done. Pride, is that not on the list of the seven cardinal sins? The list consists of wrath, greed, sloth, pride, lust, envy, and gluttony. Ignoring the problem, sloth. Trying to be like all the other cities, lust. They have a bigger something, envy. How much of the public trough, gluttony. And finally, how long can we hold out and punish the city for asking us to bargain in good faith, greed.
I see we have one staunch defender of the city, no matter what the issue. Mr. Miller, are you aware how much electricity stop lights would use compared to the almost 3 million this roundabout has cost? The price for the stop lights would have been about 150k, so electricity would have been paid for through the 23rd century, with just the interest on the 675 K that was added to the street LID to build the roundabout. I hope that you enjoy traveling through this new roundabout after it rains and there is about a foot of water on the road because our “city engineer” (and I use that term loosely) did not have the common sense to put in real storm drains.
The roundabout is looking good, saves us money and programming time on electric that a stop sign would cost, they are safer and unless you just don’t get it makes our city look good, I for one hope in the future they do it at the other end on ocean shores. I don’t know why most of you are so negative all the time, you live here too have some pride. G.H.Miller
Strange, I watched them blow through it all the time. Two cars from the various lanes all the time. I guess you should have been a little more observant. I have even watched them do it at the Ocean Shores/Chance intersection right in front of an officer. That happened just a few weeks ago. The officer was in the white police vehicle and not the newer blue ones. So, since you have never seen it, it did not happen? Boy, I wonder what else you have never seen in the world and don’t therefore believe that it happened. I guess everyone else in the world is clueless and you are the only inteligent life. Maybe you should get out more…
They will replace the stop signs with yeild signs. Not much of a difference here. No one stopped for the stop signs before. They just did brake and roll through. At least now we know which direction the other cars are coming from. Well we hope so at least…
AH YES!!In the circle, pay toilets.Just to re-coop some of what went down the drain. And the band plays on.
all’s i can say is 2 street lights.what we’re we all thinking when we allowed our mayor and city board too approve of this money thrown down the toilet.
The training wheels have to come off, some time!
The scary thought is, “What happens when the temporary ‘Stop Signs,’ are removed?”
I like the merry go round idea. That would give us an excuse to install a brass ring thing for a weekly prize. Or we could toss coins in the clowns mouth or go with a beach motif like a clam, fisherman with bait bucket or something else intersting and the center circle would be a whimsical toll booth.
how about a huge fountain with statues of the city council and mayor with coins spurting out of the tops of their heads.
I like the merry go round idea. That would give us an excuse to install a brass ring thing for a weekly prize. Or we could toss coins in the clowns mouth or beach motif like a clam or something and make it a whimsical toll booth.
I think we need a merry go round… People could run across the lanes to get on and then head to McDonalds or IGA…
Round about looking better. The new paint job on the IGA is shocking!
in the middle will be a policeman,and a gazebo,brought in from jamaica, pith helmet and all. he is being assigned the title “master traffic controller of ocean shores”.his salary will be a familiar amount of $300 and some odd thousand dollars.
The center island would be a great location for a company renting bumper cars.
So, does anyone know what’s going in the middle?
Where’s the bleachers and the admission gate? Thought we were going to sell tickets to watch all the fun!
I certainly hope this is just a thin layer to get us through the winter and the real paving will be done in the summer when the weather is warmer. When we had our driveway paved, we called Lakeside in late summer and they advised we wait till the next summer because the cooler temperatures (not cold and rainy as it is NOW) would mean we wouldn’t get a good job. Hello!