Ice Jam Grand River Cayuga

View From Robert Baigent Park Village Side

 

Ouse Street Looking South Toward Tennis Courts

The Night After Bridge Moved

This is the photo that earned over ten thousand hits on facebook.  Ten thousand, five-hundred in less that forty-eight hours.  We have a new bridge aligned with the highway.



Looking East Over the Bridge Night of Move
 

There continues to be construction on and under and at both ends.  Most days there has been two-way traffic although the lanes have been narrow because of a partial lane being used for construction equipment and workers.  Starting first week of November the bridge will go down to one lane for additional work.  We will keep you posted.




Cayuga Has a Bridge in Place
 

Blank Board Covering Word CLOSED

Scheduled to Align New Bridge W/Hwy 3 Saturday, August 27

Soon will the high midsummer
         pomps come on.
Soon will the musk carnations
        break and swell.
Soon will we have gold-dusted
        snapdragon
Sweet William with its homely
         cottage smell,
And stocks in fragrant blow,
Roses that down the alleys
         shine afar
And open jasmine-muffled
         lattices
And groups under the
         dreaming garden trees
And the full moon and the
         white evening star.

~ Matthew Arnold (1822 - 1888
     from "Thyrsis"

Entrance to New Bridge

Looking West

Lights Line Both Sides of New Bridge
 

The new bridge is scheduled to be aligned with the highway on Saturday, August 26.

Significant Progress On The Bridge

East End Abutment

[Please click on photos for larger image.]

West End Looking East Toward Village

Heritage Grand East Bank Looking Downstream

 

 

Heritage Grand ~ Looking Upstream.  Progress on The Bridge

 

 Reports indicate that the new bridge will be aligned with the highway sometime during the last week of August, 2016 and that work on the bridge will be complete by spring, 2017.

View From Ouse Street East Bank

 
 



East Bank Looking Upstream

 
 

{...for our friends in Florida.}

[Photos: Railway Bridge Over Grand at Cayuga Feb.2016 lbw]

 

 

Villagers all, this frosty tide,
Let your doors swing open wide,
Though wind may follow, and snow beside,
Yet draw us in by your fire to bide;
     Joy shall be yours in the morning!

Here we stand in the cold and the sleet,
Blowing fingers and stamping feet,
Come from far away you to greet ~
You by the fire and we in the street ~
      Bidding you joy in the morning!

~ The field-mice at Mole End "singing one of the old-time carols that their fore-fathers composed in fields that were fallow and held by frost..." THE WIND IN THE WILLOWS, Kenneth Grahame, Methuen & Co. Ltd. London. 1908.

[Photo:  The Grand River, Cayuga. January 19, 2016. lbw]

 

 

 

The Reality ~

 

Construction on the new bridge came to an abrupt stop last fall when members of the Haudenosaunee Development Institute - representing the Haudenosaunee Confederacy Chiefs Council - claimed they had not been consulted.

 

[Photos: October 2015 lbw]

 

 



Take to The Country ~ along The Grand

[Photos:  August 7, 2015]

The Old Railway Bridge

The *New* Bridge ~ View From Ouse Street

The *New* Bridge in Use

All work ceased on the new bridge in November, 2014.  It sits unaligned with the highway.

Bridge Entrance Today

[Photos: lbw]

The Heritage Grand River

I'll walk where my own nature would be leading ~
It vexes me to choose another guide ~
Where the grey flocks in ferny glens are feeding,
Where the wild wind blows on the mountain-side.

~Emily Bronte [1818 - 1848] Often Rebuked.  Stanza 4

"Space and light and order. Those are the things that men need just as much as they need bread or a place to sleep."

~ Le Corbusier (1887 - 1965) Writer, Swiss-French architect, urban planner.

Village of York

The Grand

"In the name of God, stop a moment, cease your work, look around you."

~ Leo Tolstoy (1828 - 1910) Russian novelist, Philosopher.

"The fact that I can plant a seed and it becomes a flower, share a bit of knowlege and it becomes another's, smile at someone and receive a smile in return, are to me continual spiritual exercises."

~ Leo Buscaglia PHd (March 31, 1924 - June 12, 1998) American author, known as Dr. Love.

Smile for Today ~

For our friends in Florida

[Photos: Monday, March 9, 2015 lbw]