Atlas Outdoor

Town Approves Contract for Trinity Pass ‘Guiderail’ Replacement

By |

Town officials last week moved to approve a contract with a Connecticut company for the replacement of guiderails along a narrow, windy road up in the north side of New Canaan. The Board of Selectmen at its regular meeting June 4 voted 2-0 to approve the $17,860 contract with Branford-based Atlas Outdoor. The guiderail in question “ends on a ridge that we share with New York and protects alongside the bridge and reservoir,” Director of Public Works Tiger Mann told the Board at the meeting, held in Town Hall. First Selectman Kevin Moynihan and Selectman Kit Devereaux voted to approve a request from the Department of Public Works to enter the contract, which includes a contingency of $2,680 and police protection for $2,500. Selectman Nick Williams was absent.

Government

Town To Install Additional Guiderails at Six Locations

By |

Town officials last month approved a $107,000 contract with a Plainville-based company to install guiderails along the sides of the road at six locations in New Canaan. The Board of Selectmen at its Sept. 18 meeting voted 3-0 to approve the $107,170 contract with Eagle Fence and Guardrail, which includes $14,000 in contingency, plus $5,000 in for police protection for the work. The installations will be on Ponus Ridge, Frogtown Road, Clapboard Hill Road and Glen Drive, according to Public Works Director Tiger Mann. “Two of these locations were actually given to us by a recent inspection done by the state,” Mann told the selectmen at their meeting, held in Town Hall.

Government

Failing ‘Guide Rails’ on Ponus Ridge, Turner Hill Road To Be Replaced

By |

The Board of Selectmen at its most recent meeting unanimously approved more than $38,000 in two contracts with a Plainville-based company to replace guide rails on Ponus Ridge and Turner Hill Road. Eagle Fence & Guardrail under a $21,950 contract that includes $2,500 contingency and $2,500 for New Canaan Police presence will replace guide rails on both approaches to the Merritt Parkway overpass at Ponus Ridge, following the board’s 3-0 vote. A state bridge inspection found that the railings themselves at that location were missing and that id had a loose cable system, according to Public Works Director Tiger Mann. Additionally, Eagle under a $16,190 contract that includes $1,800 contingency and another $2,500 for police will do similar work on a stretch of Turner Hill Road that spans a steep embankment and stream, Mann told the selectmen at their March 27 meeting, held at Town Hall. “They [Eagle] gave us an alternative to what we normally have been doing, based on the fact that there is a lot of rock and a lot of ledge,” Mann said.

Government

Selectmen Approve Contract To Replace Guiderails on Nursery Road

By |

Officials last week approved funds to improve the guiderails along the sides of a town road that the state had deemed “poor” and in need of “corrective action.”

The new, Merritt Parkway-style guiderails for Nursery Road will replace the existing cable ones, following a unanimous vote by the Board of Selectmen for a $58,750 contract with a Plainville-based company to do the work. “The [Connecticut Department of Transportation] rated this guiderail as ‘poor’ so it needs corrective action,” Joe Zagarenski, senior engineer with the New Canaan Department of Public Works, told the selectmen at their regular meeting, held Aug. 22 in Town Hall. “They say it’s a high priority of corrective action. It’s a residential area so we are going with a Merritt Parkway-style rail and the funds are available in the guiderail account.”

The contractor is Eagle Fence & Guardrail.

Government

New Guiderails To Be Installed on Greenley, West Roads

By |

Town officials last week approved a contract with a Plainville-based company to install guiderails at three sites on the west side of New Canaan. The $48,350 contract with Plainville-based Eagle Fence & Guardrail will see two steel guiderails installed on Greenley Road and one on West Road, following a 3-0 vote by the Board of Selectmen. Though two bids came back on the town’s RFP, Eagle uses “anchorages that we feel are much more crash-worthy and a better installation,” Department of Public Works Assistant Director Tiger Mann said at the June 14 meeting, held at Town Hall. A cable guardrail at the corner of Greenley and Chichester Roads “has been damaged and knocked down,” Mann said, while a new steel rail will go in on West Road near the bridge north of Turtleback Road and “at the curve” nearly 100 Greenley Road. “As you come into Greenley Road, you come over the bridge and then there is a right-hand turn, there is a steep embankment off to the left there, we are looking at installing Merritt Parkway rail there,” Mann said.