Speak Up: DelDOT to host virtual workshop on Camden bypass

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The Delaware Department of Transportation will discuss plans in a virtual workshop Sept. 28 to lessen congestion through the Camden area with the potential construction of a bypass.

The meeting, with a question-and-answer session to solicit input on the topic of a bypass, is set for 5-7 p.m. via Zoom. Also to be discussed is a widening project for U.S. 13, between Walnut Shade Road and the Puncheon Run Connector.

  • Oh, hell no! No more cars on Walnut Shade. — Laura Wing
  • Oh, yes, they will do it, and you will like it! — Bob Hice
  • Look at the mess in Millsboro. Several years ago, the business owners and the farmers rejected a bypass. Now, it’s a total nightmare in that area, so much so that the state pretty much is going to do it, regardless of the whining. If this isn’t done in the Camden area, it’ll be like Millsboro in a few years. Then what? It’ll be complaining about, “DelDOT should’ve fixed this years ago.” — Michael Jones
  • So they filled the Camden U.S. 13 area with stoplights, every half-mile (more or less), instead of creating a limited-access road, like that connecting Walmart and Lowe’s. Now, they want to push another highway through another growing residential area. The opportunity to make East Street in Camden the access road for all those stores, when the Walmart store began, was there. With an overpass at Voshell Mill Road, a simple jog to go behind Papa John’s and to continue south to connect to Walmart Drive would have been comparatively cheap. No access off the highway. Total issues: a couple of business buildings and an overpass. Now, they want to spend how many millions of dollars to build a new highway when a much cheaper access road would have taken care of a third of the issue. — Dennis Mehrenberg
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