bum76's Blog

For the first time in the 44 year history of Fish Day the parade has been canceled this year due to the very unpopular narrowing of the main streets here in Port Washington. Thousands of people signed petition's 2 years ago when the narrowing idea came up but council members shot the petitions down because of all the state money they will get from this project. They want so bad for Port to be like Cedarburg they are copying their downtown in hope of attracting more tourists.

So they think by making the side walks bigger and having tree's planted every 20 feet will just bring em' in...they are wrong.

As far as those with boats when the revamping of Ports Downtown is complete and they see what a mess it is to navigate in the 6 foot narrower streets. I am sure they will be looking for new places to Dock their boats.

Fish Day is not Fish Day with out the 2 hour parade to kick things off...and if the Fish Day committee thought things out a little bit they could find an alternate route...Holden St. perhaps

I am still going to Fish Day , but it is a shame what is happening to our quaint little fishing village...Truth be told we have not been a quaint fishing village for some time , most businesses downtown fail ( except Taverns and some restaurants ) largely due to the High Rent and over inflated property taxes , and this road project is going to hurt those businesses even more.

Port Washington officials need to WAKE UP!