Government

DPW: New Canaan Recovering from Worst-Ever Winter for Town Roads

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Between potholes and frost damage caused by snow storms and lingering low temperatures, New Canaan is coming out of the worst winter that town roads have ever seen, officials say. And Fox Run Road—which ranks among the worst in town with a “Pavement Condition Index” or PCI in the low 50s, according to Tiger Mann, assistant director of the New Canaan Department of Public Works—is due to get an upgrade as part of an overall approval of about $1.4 million for road works. Asked at the Board of Selectmen meeting, held in the New Canaan Police Department’s training room, whether this has been the worst winter season in his experience, Mann replied: “Since we’ve been paving, yes, in our history.”

Other roads set to have milling and paving work done in this go-round (the first of many) include:

Bald Hill Road
Beech Road
Benedict Hill Road
Evergreen Road
Fox Run Road
Laurel Road (from a little south of Soundview down to Turner Hill)
Lost District Drive (from West to St. George Lane)
Ramhorne Road

“Life in New England,” First Selectman Rob Mallozzi said of the harsh season just past. “Wouldn’t trade it for anything.”

Government

Conceptual Plan, Funding for Elm-to-Irwin Sidewalk Discussed

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Should New Canaan pursue installation of a sidewalk between Elm Street and Irwin Park, the town likely would look hard at bonding the project and bringing stop signs to the intersection at Weed and Elm, officials say. Conceptual plans for the approximately $130,000 project have been drawn up, though no funding exists for it, Department of Public Works officials confirmed at the March 19 meeting of the Town Council, held in the Visitors Center at the New Canaan Nature Center. There, asked by council members which side of Weed Street the sidewalk would run along, DPW Assistant Director Tiger Mann said the western side (the same as Irwin itself). “The original plan had it going from Elm Street to the second driveway, the northern drive,” Mann said. “But since the new trail was installed across the great lawn, now it stops at the southern driveway.”

The discussion arose during the department’s presentation for this budget season.