Meh. I think the choice of road is being highly overexaggerated here. Eastbound Bow Trail was bottlenecked in an area to a good one lane for a half-a-year span in 2008. This was during major rush hour traffic, twice a day. Somehow, people survived.
The contractor building Jameison Place downtown next to Eau Claire has shut off both 2nd Street and 3rd Avenue, off and on, for the last year. This, of course, during rush hour traffic in the mornings and afternoons. This should be WAAAY more of an issue to the public and to the aldermen than shutting down one direction of traffic for one day on a weekend in the summer.
It's just really not a big deal.
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