“The city has no regard for us,” is what longtime Southbridge resident Rick King said his first thought was when he noticed the shutdown.
“They just want to frustrate us so everybody moves out, and they can just take over and do what they want to do,” King said.
A spokesperson for the city of Wilmington acknowledged the disruption but said emergency services providers were alerted of the closures.
The work on the bridge focused on replacing a mechanism that opens and closes it. DelDOT delayed its work on the bridge until mid-March at the city’s request, and A street was opened to accommodate “limited” traffic in one lane, said John Rago, Wilmington Mayor Mike Purzycki’s deputy chief of staff for policy and communications.
