New fence goes up forward of Norfolk overpass repairs

NORFOLK, Va. (WAVY) — If you end up driving both down Virginia Seashore Boulevard or Navy Freeway, you’ll have observed on the nook of a really busy intersection fences put up across the underpasses on both aspect of the Boulevard.

A Norfolk resident, who recognized himself as Eric, sat and watched because it occurred.

“Metropolis got here out that it marked off and all the pieces and simply popped it up. Did you see them put the fences up? Oh yeah. However what occurred? They simply got here in, lined it up, popped the posts in.”

In accordance with Eric it took the town three days to only that. In that point interval social media has been buzzing as to why the town would put up fences in an space broadly identified for attracting the homeless. Even a few of these within the unhoused neighborhood had issues.

“Each occasionally, any person would are available to crash and keep. Crash for some time, however then they might rise up within the sleeve for chief stuff, and it simply go.”

10 On Your Facet reached out to the town to search out out why the fence was put out and, in a press release, they stated…

“The fenced off areas might be laydown areas for the upcoming Navy Freeway overpass repairs undertaking,” the town stated in a press release, although it needed to clarify the fence had nothing to do with the homeless within the space.

There isn’t any phrase on when the repairs to the overpass will start.

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