Ice Jam Grand River Cayuga

View From Robert Baigent Park Village Side

 

Ouse Street Looking South Toward Tennis Courts

Looking West Over Bridge

From Day-to-Day on Talbot!

The new bridge is one lane until work is complete.   Visitors to Cayuga may want to allow extra travel time especially during the 5:00 p.m. hour - Cayuga's "rush hour"!  The stop lights at Talbot and Cayuga Street are set at green all the time for east/ west traffic;  however, there are portable stoplights at the bridge entrance both ends.  Watch for pedestrians ~ the crosswalk lights and the stoplights to One-way Cayuga Street are black-bagged.

Talbot & Cayuga St. Looking North

Talbot & Cayuga Streets Looking Toward Bridge

Village Green

This summer we had crosswalks, sidewalks, streets w/asphalt, hanging plants, planters.  We retained our green space in the Village Green!  We have a proper bridge aligned with the highway. 

New Bridge Looking West

 

Talbot St. Looking West Toward The Bookshop & Bridge

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

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West End Looking East Toward Village

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

Follow the Story of The Bridge on "Cayuga-on-the-Grand" on Facebook or "Neat Little Bookshop"

Looking West on the New Bridge

Looking Southwest

Looking South From the Bridge

 

Significant Progress on The New Bridge

One-Way Traffic

Huge Delivery

Lowering

Lowering Stairs

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 New Red & Green at Talbot & Cayuga Streets



Familiar?  Came From Niagara Falls

Over the Bridge Find RIVER 3 FAMILY RESTAURANT

The Famous Mountie Stands Guard at RIVER 3

We voted.  NOW CAN WE GET THE BRIDGE FIXED?

 

 

 

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]

 

 



Looking West Over the Unfinished Bridge

CAYUGA FINALLY HAS LINES

View From Bookshop Window ~ Overflow from Wrecking Yard

Adjacent Business Occupying two of three Parking Spaces

PUBLIC PARKING LOT FOR CAYUGA ?

Yes, it is called "shaming" ~ we have appealed to our representatives.  We will continue to make folks aware of the on-going issue of the lack of public parking in Cayuga.  The county included in the official "Streetscape Plan" drawings and description of parking lots - all privately owned, privately maintained.  And ~ the county collects business taxes from the very "property owners" that they identify as parking areas.  We are requesting a public parking lot close to the downtown businesses.  "Haldimand County Streetscape Plan" identifies the downtown as "historic" and a tourist area.

We will continue to post updates on Facebook.  Downtown has lost several tourist- friendly businesses and whether the county addresses the problem of parking will determine the future of remaining businesses, including the bookshop.

[photos: lbw]

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]