The following letter has been sent to Delaware Department of Transportation Secretary Shanté Hastings with a copy provided to the Cape Gazette for publication.
I have been to the construction site on Cave Neck Road about four times in the last two weeks during normal working hours. No one was working at the site and little changed from visit to visit. Work is concentrated on one shoulder of the road. For bicycles, the posted detour on now heavily trafficked, narrow country roads with minimal shoulders is dangerous. The road closure is a major inconvenience for local traffic. This is a situation where, most of the time, it could be accomplished with just a shoulder closure with an occasional closing of one lane.
I ask for two steps:
1. Cease the full road closure
2. Assign someone at DelDOT to oversee this project closely to determine why progress on the work is so slow.
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