On 8/8/2018 14:37, Rick Womer wrote:
Odd. Got to them using my iPhone. Well done gallery; it makes me
wonder what the Bridgeport government was thinking.
Rick
My guess is they didn't have the $20 plus million a replacement bridge was going
to cost and couldn't justify spending taxpayer's money to benefit so few people.
And while the question of how to restore public access was in limbo, the
squatters, ravers, vandals & hooligans burned down too many of the island
structures.
Neither Bridgeport nor Stratford, CT had the additional police & fire resources
needed to protect the area. Every time another structure was destroyed the
"costs" went up and the "benefits" went down.
Eventually it reached the point where there was no point in trying to save the
houses.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pleasure_Beach
Plus, Stratford wanted to demolish the cottages they owned on their end of the
peninsula so they could sell the land to the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service for
inclusion in the Stewart B. McKinney National Wildlife Refuge.
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