Poll: Does Easton Need a Skate Park?
Easton says it could cost up to $250,000 to build skate park. What do you think?
Skaters compete in Easton last year at an event to raise interest in a local skate park.
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Easton is waiting on three of its neighbors -- the borough of Wilson and Forks and Palmer townships -- to decide what they want to do about the construction of a regional skatepark.
Of the three, Forks might be the most important, Easton Councilwoman Elinor Warner told the Morning Call Friday.
Forks is looking at building a park on its own, Palmer-Forks Patch editor Dino Ciliberti wrote last month.
It would cost between $150,000 and $250,000 to build the park. Under the most expensive scenario, Easton would pay $95,000.
Do you think this is something Easton should still pursue? Let us know in the comments, and take our poll below.
Andy Novick
9:03 am on Sunday, August 19, 2012
That is a small price to pay, compared to the cost of a kid who gets in trouble and ends up in the penal system. Lets give kids a good thing to do with their time to keep them out of trouble. Skateboarding is good, safe fun for kids with proper equiptment and training.
Jon Geeting
9:14 am on Sunday, August 19, 2012
Maybe the park should be somewhere centrally located with good bus connections for kids who don't drive. Any surface parking lots in the vicinity of downtown Easton that would be big enough?
another point of view
9:56 am on Sunday, August 19, 2012
"good bus connections", an oxymoron, most definitely!
Nancy L. Bellers
11:39 am on Sunday, August 19, 2012
I would like to see a skate park in or close to downtown Easton. It would discourage local skaters from skating in the middle of sidewalks or in and out of traffic. The park would have to be routinely patrolled by local police to keep it from becoming a haven for local drug dealers and gang members. Don't misunderstand me. I am not saying that skaters are druggies, drug dealers, or gang members. A skate park could end up becoming a place that gang members hang out and drug dealers sell their wares.
Pirmigrin
12:25 pm on Sunday, August 19, 2012
I think its a good idea, but it needs to be somewhere that is widley open to traffic and constant police presence. The old skate park on South Side was a great thing....untill the dealers took it over (when the projects were still operating full force), than it fell rather quickly. If done, hopefully the City does it right.
Periscope
12:46 pm on Sunday, August 19, 2012
Easton need not spend a dime on these destroyers of public and private property. Let them go to Forks Township Community Park. Supervisors out there have lots of recreation money to burn and have made plans to build a skate park. Take a LANTA bus, free with your school pass, to the Giant grocery store. The park is just behind it. Residents in downtown Easton don't need skate boarders on their sidewalks and streets. Mayor Panto and the City Council should just sit back and table the discussion. After all they have Forks township to thank.
Let them go to Forks Township
Ronnie DelBacco
10:47 am on Monday, August 20, 2012
If there were a real market for a skate park, it should come from the private sector with memberships and renewals purchased by users/members...like the health clubs. Under a certain age would require parental sign-off and, waivers, etc. The city should not get involved at all, but of course it would collect taxes from the business.