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From: katerina zacharopoulos QR
Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2022 9:23 AM
To: Board of Aldermen
Subject: Barriers
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Good morning,
| have been a lifelong resident here in beautiful, Nashua, New Hampshire. | am here to express my concerns regarding
the barriers. The fact that there’s a possibility of them returning (for three more years at that) is just unnecessary.
| understand that during covid it was needed for the restaurants to survive when indoor dining wasn’t allowed. But why
push it when things are almost back to normal now? Indoor dining is allowed and there is still plenty of space for
restaurants on Main Street to have outdoor dining. Why close a whole lane for this? Put peoples live at risk who are in
need of emergency services? What about the other businesses that didn’t have that option? They are doing what they
can to get back on their feet and are for the most part, regaining business back.
| just don’t think it’s necessary moving forward to do this. Nashua isn’t a St. Catherine’s Ave in Montreal, a Faneuil Hall in
Boston or a Riga Fereou in Patras, Greece. It is a city where cars are heavily used in downtown. | personally have avoided
Nashua at all costs during the barriers. Not to mention eating next to a lane of traffic and fumes. The noise doesn’t
bother me because there’s where cars belong in the first place. So don’t get me started on the people that complain
about that. Businesses did find before the barriers. Did they help? I’m sure it did. But Nashua deserves to operate and
look better like it once did.
These barriers look absolutely horrendous. | have to give respect to the local artists who did great and all with their
beautiful artistic skills, which | can’t discredit. However, the majority of the barriers art weren’t even completed. No
matter how beautiful art can be it’s still on a barrier that makes downtown look like a third world country (I’ve traveled
the whole world and seen this first hand).
In closing, it’s time we get back to normal again. Covid is almost behind us, why keep a reminder of it? Not to mention
the unnecessary traffic, safety concerns and unappealing looks these barriers cause. They served their purpose when
they needed to. We are past that now. | hope to see Nashua the way it looked a few years ago. It’ll make myself and
everyone | know want to actually go back and visit all the businesses.
Kind regards,
Katerina Sousa
3 Ritter Street, Nashua NH 03060
