A huge hole opened up a couple of weeks ago in Public Square, which has been cloyingly christened "Cleveland's Living Room" by our dependably cliche-dependant media, though if you were to render it in authentic Clevelandese, it would be "Cleveland's Front Room."
A water leak was spotted bubbling up through the pavement near the intersection of Ontario Street and Superior Avenue by a Cleveland cop, who duly relayed the intelligence to the city. A city inspector eyeballed the artesian event and announced that steps could wait till morning. Six hours later, the roadway collapsed in a hole that soon grew to the size of "a basketball court," according to the Beige Lady.
Engineers expect it will take weeks to repair the damage. Meantime, other leaks in the antiquated, deteriorating system are opening up, a 75-year-old utility tunnel running beneath the length of the Square is developing ominous cracks, and rush hour is apparently no fun, morning or afternoon.
Access to most everything on the Square is, of course, truncated. Best approached, if at all, on foot. The Soldiers and Sailors Monument (above, in a decisive, if anachronistic, moment) is surrounded by orange plastic webbing.
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