Today’s Chronicle runs a story by Allan Turner on Lenox Barbecue, a longtime East End barbecue joint that will be forced to close down because of the light-rail expansion.
In what is now a familiar refrain, some members of the community feel like METRO has not been responsive to their concerns about the expansion:
East End voters approved Metro’s light rail plan in 2003 by a 14 percent margin, but since then, a number of issues have left area residents in an uproar.
“We really feel badly about Lenox,” said Diane Lipton, president of the East End Chamber of Commerce, “but we don’t have any control over it.”
Lipton said her group favors light rail development on Harrisburg, but believes Metro disregarded community concerns in designing the project.
“We can’t get a response from Metro,” she charged. “They do things behind our backs. They are not community-responsive.”
We feel for those who were na
