Downtown Construction Affects Downtown Clinic

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Beginning Monday, December 1, 2014, there will be street closures and traffic pattern changes in the downtown area surrounding the Ford Center and Central Library to allow for construction of the new Doubletree Hotel. The hotel will be built on the block of land bordered by Walnut Street, SE 6thStreet, Chestnut Street, and Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd.

Starting December 1st, and continuing for the duration of construction, Walnut Street between Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. and SE 6th St. will be closed to all traffic.Orange construction fencing will be placed along the perimeter of the hotel construction site. Once this happens, SE 6th Street will be reduced to one lane of traffic between Walnut Street and Chestnut Street. Vehicles will only travel South in this area.Martin Luther King Jr. Blvd. will be reduced from 4 lanes to 2 lanes with North-bound and South-bound traffic running on the same side of the median. This lane shift is also between Walnut Street and Chestnut Street.

If possible, please avoid this construction area and find an alternate route to Deaconess Clinic Downtown. SE 5th Street ends in the Deaconess Clinic parking lot and will be open during construction. Cherry Street is another open road that provides several entry points into Deaconess Clinic Downtown.

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  1. I always bypass that area anyway. Taking the I-164 (soon to be called I-69 bypass around the city to Southlane drive and onto Cherry is the easiest way to get to the Deaconess Clinic. Which is the best way to avoid the Lloyd Construction if the city stops closing down the Riverfront drive and making people detour over to 2nd Street. It’s bad enough that they installed more stop lights on Riverside Drive by the Dress Plaza Area. I really wish that the city would spend money on elevating that road there so that they could party under the new road and we could travel thought that area unmolested by Stop lights and other detours. This is how I remember it around Louisville, KY. They have actually expressways that let you get around that city. Imagine the city of Indianapolis blocking traffic on the bypass around that city to have a stupid party that lasted for the entire weekend. Good lord. This city is so damn backwards that it’s not even right. We have too many goobers in charge and when the do hire some smart people to help them run the city they either get rid of them or don’t ever listen to them.

    I can’t wait until the day comes when KY let the Ohio River cut across the farmland pensulia right across from downtown Evansville and the city is left with nothing more than an Obow lake to both drink out of and dump it’s sewage into. Maybe then the people and the leaders will figure out a way to treat the water and the sewage properly. If not the cancer rates will sky rocket and disease will be pervasive. Most all the river water will flow well away from the City’s Water intake lines and within the boarders of the state of KY. And KY won’t do IN or Evansville any favors. They didn’t even let the city’s River Boat go out into the KY portion of the Ohio River … Remember? There will be nothing that the city can do.

    The only way to stop that from happening is for the Army Corp of Engineers to try to stop the river. And good luck with that! Mother Nature is going to win ever time. Watch what happens with increasing rainfall and the Mississippi River’s old dam. That eventually will fail and cut off New Orleans someday. There is not stopping the water or making it go where it does not want to go. Witness the grand canyon and other historical catastrophic Geologic events in the past millions of years. Study your historical geology and you will see what I’m talking about. I didn’t make this stuff up. It’s in the historical records. You just have to train your eye to see it and listen to the historical geologists who study this stuff. Rivers like the Ohio River meander and change course all the time over history.

    PS: I’m talking geologic time now. But there is some evidence that instead of slow and steady changes that Catastrophic events may be the cause. I can see that in some cases.

    • “Catastrophic events ” That’s the sewer and utility infrastructure cost to install over the mess at that location. The rest of the towns sectioned balances that are on that archaic Zombie combined sewers system won’t see any solutions, neither will the extent of the Ohio river drainage basins Strategic clean water balance. The EPA should start with the CSO event fines tomorrow at midnight, as the construction of that community funded farce “supposedly” starts.

      farce (noun)
      : a funny play or movie about ridiculous situations and events

      : the style of humor that occurs in a farce

      : something that is so bad that it is seen as ridiculous

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