On her blog at the Courant, Loretta Waldman has posted pictures of a proposed overpass for the US44 / Route 10 intersection at the foot of Avon Mountain. The intersection is infamous as the site of a couple of spectacular crashes in the past few years, due to trucks’ brakes failing on the steep downgrade.
This problem was supposed to be resolved by an ugly runaway truck ramp recently installed, but apparently ConnDOT still has some grand plans. "Before" and "after" pictures are up:
