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I am writing as a pedestrian that frequently needs to walk down state street. As outdoor/indoor dining has reopened it has been increasingly hard to avoid mask-less diners while walking down the street. Often, the only way to avoid walking right next to these diners is to walk in the street. Now, this upper state street restaurant is building out a patio in the street to expand their outdoor dining area. This eliminates any way to walk down this block of state street while avoiding mask-less restaurant goers. In fact many of the upper state street restaurants are taking over the entire sidewalk area for dining. How are folks that need to use the sidewalk to access their dwellings suppose to be able to safely walk without having to expose themselves to folks eating and drinking with no masks? I would like the see the city consider how to create safe walkways where folks that don't want to come within 6ft feet of people with no masks on can safely walk down city sidewalks.
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sara (Isticmaale Diiwaangashan)
Nick (Isticmaale Diiwaangashan)
sara (Isticmaale Diiwaangashan)
Maybe it would force people to use their cars less and walk more which no one would be happy with so…
Britches (Isticmaale Diiwaangashan)
Britches (Isticmaale Diiwaangashan)
Tommy (Isticmaale Diiwaangashan)
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Carm (Isticmaale Diiwaangashan)
Dear State Street Pedestrian,
As one of the business owners on State Street I am very offended and quite outraged at your post.
I’m curious exactly what your point was in writing this because you offered no advice or suggestions on how to fix YOUR problem.
Yes, people who are dining outside can sit down and take their masks off to eat and drink. YOU as a pedestrian walking by have the right to wear a mask. If you are wearing YOUR mask, then what exactly is the issue here? YOU are protected, correct?
Would you like the city to shut down all the businesses on State St. so that you can freely walk down the street with no other people around? Would that make you happy? The businesses on State St. are barely getting by. Indoor dinning is not only at half capacity, but we are still not allowed to open our bar areas. At this point outdoor dining is our only way to make some money, and even doing that we are still not profitable!
Before writing a post like this please think about the business owners and their many employees who rely on a paycheck to feed their families. We would like to apologize if trying to make a living has inconvenienced you.
sara (Isticmaale Diiwaangashan)
We can walk six feet apart from your customers. Masks or not.
sara (Isticmaale Diiwaangashan)
That’s the point.
I don’t want want to be a foot from a stranger with a mask if I’m not even seeing my family that close up.
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