{"id":367,"date":"2012-10-17T11:20:18","date_gmt":"2012-10-17T15:20:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/?p=367"},"modified":"2012-10-17T11:20:18","modified_gmt":"2012-10-17T15:20:18","slug":"berkeley-springs-bob-fords-bridge-over-522","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/?p=367","title":{"rendered":"Berkeley Springs Bob Ford&#8217;s Bridge Over 522"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Ford has a bridge he wants to sell you.<\/p>\n<p>That is \u2013 he would tear up the soccer field on US 522 across from the ballfields, pave it over into a parking lot, and build a walking bridge over the federal highway to the ballfields on the other side of the road &#8212; and to 16 acres of county land just south of the ballfields, which he would develop.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SD3YtuXlXqc\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>No one knows how much such a project would cost.<\/p>\n<p>Or what it would take for the county to secure the necessary permits to build such a bridge over a federal highway.<\/p>\n<p>Ford is again running for Morgan County Commissioner.<\/p>\n<p>This time as a Republican.<\/p>\n<p>Ford was at the candidates\u2019 forum this past Sunday at the American Legion in Berkeley Springs, West Virginia.<\/p>\n<p>And he was asked by moderator John Douglas of the Morgan Messenger about the soccer fields on U.S. 522.<\/p>\n<p>Ford said he would never have voted to make the land a soccer field.<\/p>\n<p>Ford said that when he was Commissioner \u2013 ten years ago or so \u2013 the Commission bought ten acres of ground for $15,000 an acre.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThat ground was purchased for a parking lot,\u201d Ford told the gathering. \u201cWe knew there were cars demolished there. We knew they were crushed. We knew the problems. And it should be a parking lot today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf I was County Commissioner and I could influence my other two County Commissioners, I\u2019d say bring in the bulldozers, scrape the grass off of it, and throw it away. I would never have voted to put a soccer field there. My opponent did. She needs to be held accountable for that. Not me. I voted for a parking lot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have sixteen acres across the road that should be developed. And that should be a walkway across 522. Read the minutes of the meeting when the ground was purchased. At that time, we had plans to go to the Commissioner of Highways, to put a walking bridge across the road. The current parking on that side of the road would be for handicapped parking. We were going to develop the other 16 acres of land. I made that decision then. I\u2019ll stand by that decision today.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In her remarks, Commissioner Brenda Hutchinson, who Ford is seeking to unseat, addressed Ford\u2019s bridge over 522 idea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA walking bridge?\u201d Hutchinson asked. \u201cI can\u2019t even imagine how much money we would be talking if we went into finding the funding to build such a thing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bob Ford has a bridge he wants to sell you. That is \u2013 he would tear up the soccer field on US 522 across from the ballfields, pave it over into a parking lot, and build a walking bridge over &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/?p=367\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/morgancountyusa.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}