‘That Is a Milestone’: At Last, Pine Street To Be Repaved

Municipal officials are poised to approve a contract Tuesday to repave the very last road in New Canaan to get a new surface under the town’s comprehensive 21-year-old program. 

The Board of Selectmen will vote on an approximately $525,000 contract, including a contingency, with a Norwalk-based company to do the work on Pine Street—about $25,000 less than an original estimate, according to Public Works Director Tiger Mann.

“That will start some time around Oct. 1 and go through the rest of the season,” Mann told members of the Town Council Infrastructure & Utilities Committee during its Sept. 12 meeting, held at Town Hall and via videoconference.

“And that is a milestone for us, me, our DPW in general, because that is the last road in town that needs to be paved since we started our pavement management program in 2004,” he continued. 

Public Works officials had said when the program got underway that it would take 20 years to do all the roads “and it’s pretty much exactly 20 years,” Mann said. 

“We were done a year ago but Pine Street was the only outlier,” he said. “Once we do that, every road in town has been paved in the last 20 years, which is a nice thing.”

The comments came during a project update to the legislative body’s committee. 

Mann also told the Committee that a long-awaited project at the intersection of Brushy Ridge Road, Locust Avenue and Route 123 will get underway this week. The work, which will come to about $215,000, includes “intersection improvements, tying in the sidewalks and then helping with the pedestrian crossing there” across the busy state road, he said.