Page 4 THE VILLADOM TIMES III • December 15, 2010
Allendale
Council vows help to complete Chestnut Street
by John Koster Residents of Chestnut Street in Allendale should expect to see some action to complete the repaving and striping of their street. The project has lagged since mid-October, causing concern among a number of Allendale residents and borough neighbors. Allendale Councilwoman Liz White, seconded by Deputy Mayor Robert Schoepflin, said that if the hired contractor had not responded to demands that he finish the project by this week, a backup contractor who has done satisfactory work for Allendale in the past would be called in to see that the road is finally completed and opened to the general public. “Residents are driving on it,” said Allendale resident Jeff Dugal. “If residents are driving on it, why can’t I drive on it? If you want, I’ll pay somebody to paint the lines.” Dugal said he sympathized with the two Allendale policemen who had to man the barriers and turn away motorists who don’t reside on Chestnut Street so they do not use the roadway as a through street into Waldwick. But Dugal also said that using two Allendale policemen to turn traffic away is a waste of time and taxpayers’ money. He added that people from his Waldwick Plastics warehouse who used to drive to Allendale for lunch no longer did so, because the six-mile detour around Chestnut Street wastes a half-hour of their time (15 minutes each way). The detour, Dugal asserted, wastes gasoline, pollutes the air, and takes hundreds of drivers past four schools, endangering children. He apologized for becoming emotional, saying that a number of people share his frustration. Councilwoman White said she has become frustrated with the project. “We’re sitting here with a real debacle,” said White.
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“There’s nothing else to say.” White said, however, that the council had already informed AJM Contracting of Clifton that if the contractor had not wrapped up a project scheduled for completion on Oct. 12 by the end of this week, they could expect to be replaced. “The contractor has been unresponsive and we have notified him that he has been unresponsive,” White said. She added, to balance the picture, that a Verizon pole found in the road had slowed construction for reasons that were understandable. Past work by the same contractor, she said, had been acceptable, and AJM was the lowest responsible bidder for the Chestnut Street project. However, White and her peers on the council agreed with Dugal that completion had been delayed far too long. White also reported that a pending Public Service Electric & Gas project intended to augment the national power grid could be expected to intermittently block portions of Franklin Turnpike in Allendale and neighboring Ramsey starting some time in February.
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