One piece of the project business owners seem to collectively approve is the one-way traffic on Main Street and West Central Street being converted to two-way. Most agreed the change is one of its most notable, and appealing, aspects.
Michael Espinosa, owner of Fitness Together on Main Street, said he and some of the other business owners see the one-way traffic on Main Street as uninviting.
“If you miss the business you’re looking for, you have to loop back around again,” Espinosa said. “That’s very frustrating to people.”
“I think the change to two-way, it will be a good thing,” said Virginia Kon, owner of Maguro House, a Japanese-style restaurant on East Central Street. “I think it will help the (the flow) of traffic, help people driving to 495.”
Read more: http://www.milforddailynews.com/news/x345286605/Franklin-business-owners-hope-downtown-construction-project-doesn-t-cause-problems#ixzz1zvnE0CwN
My reporting on the public hearing can be found here
http://www.franklinmatters.org/2012/06/live-reporting-public-hearing-downtown.html
Design documents on the downtown project can be found here
http://franklinma.virtualtownhall.net/Pages/FranklinMA_Planning/dtimprovement
