Local news, politics, and roadgeeking all wrapped up into one story!
Connecticut Local Politics has a story out regarding traffic problems arising from one artifact of Connecticut’s long tradition of aborting major road construction projects due to local pressure:
Super 7 is the 50 year old DOT plan to link the highway portion of route 7 that ends in Norwalk to the highway portion of route 7 that ends in Danbury. This plan has been dormant for decades because some, dare say, a minority of Wilton residents, don’t want it. Their reason defy logic, since the big objection was that it would increase the amount of traffic in Wilton. Well, that is exactly what happened without Super 7, since today over 30,000 cars a day meander up route 7, a one lane road that has numerous construction projects already in progress. Things like underground powerlines being installed under the road as an example.