An alert “06880” reader — one whose car now regularly rattles — writes:
I love our town. I have worked here for over 50 years, and lived here almost as long.
It is sometimes said that “the road to hell is paved with good intentions.”
Why is the road to Town Hall and the Board of Education the worst paved in all of Westport?
For years, Myrtle Avenue has been the best route for me to take as I return home – for lunch and dinner – from my office. However, I now take an alternate route.
I thought that after the utility work was finished, it would be repaved. But it’s been this way for months now.
This is the road leading to Town Hall. Is this the impression we want to give visitors about our town?
Town Hall looks handsome. Myrtle Avenue in front: not so much.
Another reader wonders about a nearby street.
“The Post Road was paved nicely,” he says, referring to this fall’s work near CVS heading downtown, and the Ruth Steinkraus Cohen Bridge over the Saugatuck River.
“But what about near Main Street?” he asks. “It’s a mess.”
He’s right. From Myrtle Avenue (!) to Parker Harding Plaza, it’s rough and bumpy.
The area by Anthropologie and Tiffany is supposed to be our downtown’s crown jewel.
Instead it’s like a cheap giveaway, from the bottom of a Crackerjack box.