Will We Be So Lucky? Don't Count On It!

Anyone who, like me, regularly walks the long portion of so-called sidewalk in front of the former Citgo gas station and convenience mart at 718 Columbia Street (now known as Lucky's) has to be thinking:  Will they replace the entire pathetic death trap sidewalk at the same time they replace their paved lot after their new gas tanks are buried and ready to fill the new gas pumps?  My thinking is that the only way that sidewalk will be replaced this month or next is if CRAIG HAIGH AT CODE ENFORCEMENT TELLS THE OWNER THEY MUST DO IT NOW OR THEY WILL BE IN BIG TROUBLE.

Which is to say, count on that busy-with-pedestrians "sidewalk" to remain untouched and to continue to easily put a few of us IMMEDIATLEY, AWKWARDLY and UNCOMFORTABLY on the rough concrete, possibly face first, and then off to the hospital or the morgue.  If the sidewalk is not replaced now, I guarantee that it will be in much worse condition -- and more dangerous -- when work on the property is completed.  Considering all the earthmoving (and shaking) going on there, in addition to all the heavy machinery and trucks full of debris rolling over and parked on the "sidewalk," that public right of way is really taking a beating.  It sure ain't gettin' any better on its own!

Pictures don't quite reflect the reality of how 
bad LUCKY's sidewalk is and has been for 
far too long!  You have to experience it!  You 
won't forget it!  You may regret it!  Don't do it 
if you can avoid it!  Cross the street and try 
not to get pummeled by a 43-ton tractor 
trailer doing 30 mph around the bend trying 
to get the hell out of town!

Could this be our only opportunity to have a
safe and respectable sidewalk in front of LUCKY's???!!!
Or will the Public Works Board possibly see
 that it gets done ten or fifteen years from now?

Yesterday, as the excavator was plunging into and
removing asphalt, I could feel the sidewalk tremble, no
doubt further damaging the already well-damaged sidewalk.