IS IT TRUE that Downtown Evansville’s image, its economic development potential, and safety would improve if the sidewalks were cleaned off when it snows?…that City of Evansville officials must be intentionally trying to ruin the image of Downtown Evansville due to their lack of simple attention to sidewalk maintenance?…that downtown Evansville has no sidewalk maintenance program at all?…that if someone falls and hurts themselves on the ice that the City of Evansville will be sued?…that no one ignorant enough to let ice stay on sidewalks should be allowed to hold public office?…that complaints have been registered for three years now and nothing has happened?…that the head of DMD is on record as saying “it’s not the city’s job” to do that?…that this kind of failure on the part of leadership is why Evansville does not ever seem to move forward?…that any government entity that can afford to build a $128 Million stadium yet cries “POOR” when it comes to picking up paper or shoveling ice and snow has no business holding the purse strings to anything?
Why shouold the City pay to maintain sidewalks in front of businesses? Using that logic they should be shoveling in front of my house. Let Vectren and the other businesses clean their own sidewalks, they can afford it, and I may be mistaken but they own them. I know I had to pay to have mine replaced
I think that the writers message was that completely snow and ice covered sidewalks are a hazard and make the downtown look un-cared-for. Many of the downtown storefronts are empty. Most big cities do clear the downtown sidewalks. Evansville does not and it shows. I agree with you that if the businesses own the sidewalks that it should be in their interest and responsibility to clean their own sidewalks. Do the businesses own those sidewalks though. I am not sure.
if they can’t clean the streets, and they can’t, how are they gonna do sidewalks? My only suggestion would be people who have been sentenced to community service and you won’t get them out on days like this. I’d like my neighborhood to lookk nice also so bring a shovel
Yep, they can’t seem to mow the parks and baseball fields either. We have a serious litter problem that is not taken care of even by the orange jumpsuit apparatus. People throw it down quicker than the crims can pick it up. They can’t commit to mow the downtown park at 4th and Main. City beautification services are truly cursed with more work than they can handle. I guess shoveling the snow on Main so it looks like someone gives a darn is asking too much. The nice neighborhoods of Evansville, and there are many, are kept that way by the people who live there.
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