Lots of concerns

Dear editor:
I am writing in regard to our street being blocked off for yet another year.
I live on Fifth Street East between Portage Avenue and McIrvine Road. I had to go uptown one day last week and it took me 45 minutes to get from my house to the credit union.
Not only that, but do they not realize the extra loss of gas by having to go around all of the time?
I have lived here for 11 years and the road in front of my house has never been repaired. They come and put a little tar in the holes and that is it.
I have had to replace the shocks on my vehicle with only 50,000 km on it.
From what I hear, it will be yet another year before we will not be blocked off because of the underpass repairs. They have the times and days of the closure posted, but keep changing them all of the time.
What if a child were hurt and you had to take them to the hospital, and there was a train across the track and it was Thursday and the tourists were going back to the States. You would never make it.
Thank you for allowing me the space to express my concerns.
Signed,
Gwen Perlette
Fort Frances, Ont.