Perhaps, it is. But the bridge is an impediment to economic growth in New Castle County. It is an inadequate bottleneck in a road that carries thousands of cars daily. Between 7 a.m. and 8 a.m. each weekday morning traffic backs up on Delaware 141 from the Brandywine onto the viaduct over the Kirkwood Highway. The reverse is true in late afternoon.
Cars spew noxious fumes that harm people, plants and animals along the road.
The bottleneck must be fixed. Everyone knows this. But no one wants seems willing to act except New Castle County government. A smooth flow of traffic from U.S. 202 through the McConnell Bridge was surely part of what the county expected when it agreed to waivers to permit the AstraZeneca expansion now and the potential expansion of DuPont's Experimental Station. The work on the Concord Pike is moving with dispatch.