Arlington Avenue has already been shut down since 2024, and now we’re being told it will remain closed through 2028. That’s four years of disruption in a residential neighborhood.
This is what happens when infrastructure is ignored for too long and then finally fails all at once. They’re not just fixing a section of road. They’re replacing sewer lines all the way to Detroit Avenue and then rebuilding the roadway. That tells you everything. This is a system issue, not a small repair.
As a South Toledo resident living on Woodsdale Avenue, just five houses from the Arlington intersection, I am experiencing these impacts firsthand alongside my neighbors…