Ridgewood insists contractor pick up pace on street project
SEPTEMBER 10, 2014 LAST UPDATED: WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 10, 2014, 1:21 AM
THE RECORD
RIDGEWOOD — Work has been slow on a controversial street improvement project that has frustrated village officials exploring their options.
Village Manager Roberta Sonenfeld said construction recently resumed on the Garber Square project, following a three-month gap. But things are proceeding “very, very slowly,” she said, before suggesting Ridgewood officials consider hiring another contractor to finish the job.
“We were hoping to be a lot farther” along with the project, Sonenfeld said, adding the contractor “is aware we are not happy.
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Well it seems to this anonymous blogger the town put the project on hold during the summer months while they made up their minds about how to proceed. Project started out very fast, but then ground to a halt.
Sonenfeld conveniently leaves out the fact that the project was started, then stopped due to public backlash, and eventually re-started changing what had already been done. It seems to me that all the blame for this expensive boondoggle rests entirely with her.
If they had left it alone, no landscaping, hardscaping, lane making & back breaking & simply only paved it, now that would’ve been common sense. It is only a thoroughfare, not a Currier & Ives painting opp.
If it had not been for the contractor . . . Only if the contractor . . . If people had not complained . . .
Clearly a case of affix the blame anywhere possible other than to someone at Village Hall.
” Ridgewood Officials ” Who the Council, The Engineer. If the project would have been vedette properly before starting maybe there would have been no changes in midstream and most of all no extra charges to the residents.
#3 is right on the money just repave and be done.
A brief history of this money-pit debacle.
1. The new Village manager, with the backing of her lefty base, thought it would be the right thing to do, to instal traffic-calming measures on a stretch of road that was badly in need to repair. No public discussion was invited.
2. A contractor was awarded the project and there does not appear to have been language in the contract regarding completion time.
3. Work starts and the public quickly learn of this major change to the Village’s one and only traffic link between the two sides of town. Outrage is the result and work is stopped.
4. Work eventually resumes, whereby much of the original work has to be put back the way it was and the project basically starts again.
5. The Village Manager issues a public statement regarding her displeasure at the length of time the project is taking, and talks of finding a new contractor.
Is it any wonder people don’t want the Government managing their health?
A breath of fresh air.
Simple: When Village Hall closes for the day, grab a shovel, pick axe, a cement & an asphalt truck & finish up, problem solved!
This project was a fiasco from the get-go. It would have been better and far more cost effective to simply repave. Another case of poor decision making at Village Hall.
#10, of course. It was so obvious to so many of us, and it is so scary that it is NOT obvious to anyone in Village Hall. Can we oust them for being completely discounted with real people living in town??
How do the bikers get to the middle of the road and then back to the side of the road?
Are the bike riders lining up?
#10 The folks in Village Hall are so arrogant and full of themselves that they think they know more than the collective experience, wisdom and knowledge than those who live and/or work in the Village. WE all knew this project was a folly from the start. Guess what, now they learned…..at our expense !!