Town Approves Contract for Improving Route 106/Farm Road Intersection
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Municipal officials on Tuesday approved a $14,500 contract with a New Haven-based engineering firm to advance the town’s plans to address a major traffic problem in New Canaan. Southbound traffic on Old Stamford Road/Route 106 backs up during the school year at Farm Road, in part because drivers don’t move left while waiting to turn left at Farm and in part because there isn’t sufficient room for other motorists to get around them if more than one vehicle is making that turn. The engineering firm, Fuss & O’Neill, is redesigning the intersection “and associated traffic signals to accommodate additional turning lanes at the intersection in order to help alleviate commuter traffic and associated school traffic,” according to Maria Coplit, town engineer in the Department of Public Works. “For years, as we know, the intersection has been plagued with its challenges,” she told the Board of Selectmen during their regular meeting, held at Town Hall and via videoconference.
Op-Ed: Attention Young Families, from the Board of Education
Our schools are at risk of having services reduced by a Board of Finance proposed budget cut of $2 million-plus. Many of you have moved to New Canaan just in the past five years. Others have enjoyed many years in this wonderful town.