6 days Ago
The Connecticut Department of Transportation, notorious for wasting taxpayer money, is at it again.Past wasteful excesses including indiscriminate, extensive tree cutting along major state highways, tearing down light poles along Route 9 (only to replace them with new light poles merely three feet away) and the ridiculously expensive and unnecessary creation of a congestion-inducing traffic circle at the intersection of Route 82 and Route 154 notwithstanding, they have embarked on another wasteful exercise along state highways that are being repaved.The latest folly involves replacing all the catch basins along highways being repaved.
I originally thought that this might be reasonable since catch basins often have to be excavated and elevated to meet a higher repaved road surface; however, the replacement catch basins are being put in at the same level as the old ones since the existing pavement is being milled in order to assure the new pavement is at the original level.Catch basins, made of concrete and steel, do not deteriorate as they are located along the portion of the road with no traffic.Just another expensive, make-work project wasting taxpayer money and causing substantial traffic delays for the public.
Roger Kern, Essex.
