Sad state

Dear editor:
I can’t believe (in fact there’s many of us who can’t believe) the sad state our roads are in within the Town of Fort Frances.
Everyone is complaining that tourists aren’t coming or staying in our town and area due to high gas prices and a hassle at Customs. I think not! Look around and see how hard it is to travel west to east or north to south.
It’s ridiculous and uncalled for to have all this work being done at the same time.
The subway job was to be a year’s work and here we are in the second year and we are told it’s 25 more weeks (with seven of those restricted to no traffic for certain periods of the day due to a health and safety issue, but we are allowed to walk on the narrow pedestrian walkway).
I guess, in some strange way, it makes sense you can walk but not drive, but I have no idea what that is.
Also the work on Central Avenue—was that necessary as there are many streets in town that need attention? One, for example, is Fifth Street West.
Oh, I forgot, we got grant money for Central Avenue and everything else gets forgotten about even if our taxes increase (I was told by a person employed by Public Works that we haven’t seen a tax increase yet and just wait and see).
I have lived here almost 28 years now and as far as I know, there has never been a water or sewer problem there unlike the 100 block of Second Street East that has had three water problems in the last two years, but are ignored and now we have plans for work on a lot of main areas in town.
You can forget getting visitors to come because if I were them, I would drive as far away as I could. We should be proud of our town and encourage visitors to come here—not discourage them.
Our town leaders are creating a big problem here and hopefully they can sort it out before any more damage is done.
Thank you for your time.
Signed,
Judy Webster
Fort Frances, Ont.