Sunday was a workday for employees of the firm getting ready to replace sidewalks on South Baview. The work is scheduled to begin tomorrow (Monday) morning and will require removal of the patios. The popular sitting and eating squares survived all other construction on Bayview but this time, they will be ripped out, apparently at the restaurateurs expense. Here you see a supervisor checking just how the patio railings are intertwined with the gas pipes which were installed earlier this year. It appears that if the gas is not disconnected, the patio fencing will have to be destroyed by cutting. Not a popular prospect. Right, eaterie owners were making their concerns known. It was said Sunday that the work will proceed up Bayview from Millwood on the east side, and then begin on the west side. Work is expected to be finished by the second week of September.
So why couldn’t they wait a few weeks til patio season is over?