I was particularly unhappy to hear about the delay to Toledo’s project to rebuild Broadway Street in the South End because I had checked not too long before the announcement on its progress and was told it was right on schedule.
The series of water main breaks that have caused completion to be delayed more than six months, however, happened within days of that inquiry.
Broadway’s reconstruction started out nearly a year ago with water-main replacement between Danny Thomas Park and South Avenue, but city officials believed such replacement was not needed between South and Western Avenue. The water main had other ideas, with three breaks in early August.
Its replacement will chew up valuable construction time, causing the street reconstruction that follows to be delayed until spring.
As a South Toledoan who occasionally uses Broadway either to go downtown or to reach I-75 via South Avenue, I can only hope that street reconstruction can proceed on schedule between Stebbins and South, where the water main isn’t an issue, so that all that has to be done in the spring is the section beyond South.