The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-08-23
PLAN 10 BUILD NEW ROAD ACROSS SWAMP LAND IN
 STAMFORD IMPRACTICAL
Is BIocI1ed By New Haven RafIroad- Would Entail Great Expense-East Broadway VIII Suffer From
 Failure of Project.
(special to the Farmer.l

Is
 Stratfords August 23-The project to build road through the meadows at the rear of the Center stores from
 Main street near the railroad depot over to a point on the Ferry boule-
 yard near the present Ferry Creek
 bridge is again agitated in town and 1t is understood that the Board of Trade has taken up the matter Tn spite of all the agitation for the new
 road it is very doubtful if it will ever be blIilt as it's advocates have met
 what appears to be an insurmounta-
 bIe obstacle in the refusal of the New
 Haven railroad to give up several
 parcels of land needed to construct
 the road as planned. No one will q7les ton the statement that the new road would be very nice and would open. up a lot of uninpfoved land in the center of the town but from the standpoint of the casual observer it must be seen that the project is a most impractical one and one which will entail great expense, twelve or ff- teen thousand dollars being a. most
 conservative estimate of the cost of the work.
 ItSfs. a. wellknown fact that the chief
 reason some of the residents of the town want the road built is because l they want. the trolley tracks removed 1 from East Broadway and run through
 the new read which it is proposed to Du1lO. P0E0apS these people are u11- aware of the fact, but it is very doubt
 fuI if the Connecticut company will consent to remove it's tracks from
 East Broadway even th3ugh the com
 pany is granted the right to run /cars
 over the proposed new road Super intendent Chapman will not give the town assura nee that the company will
 consent to shift its tracks; in fact he, has stated openly in town meeting and before the selectmen of the town
 that he does not think the plan is a feasible one and that there is very little chance of the company entering into the project.
 *In the last session of the Legislature
 the Connecticut company was given permission to double track East Broad way or else put a track through Jud-
 son Place. it being left to the citizens of the town to decide which plan they wanted carried out. As matter of the other, but they will have to choose one of the two alternatives and they will have to choose pretty soon.
 If the N. r, N. H & H. R. R. would consent to give or sell to the town the
 small piece of land near the railroad station in the center it would be possi-
 ble to construct the road-so the adyo-
 cates of the project say But even if l the railroad company did give up the piece of land in question, and the l company has already refused point
 blank to do this, the cost of the pro | ject would be prohibittye. One of the advocates of the plan stated last even ing that it would cost only $l2,0Oo tc 1 construct the road but this figure 1e 1 generally regarded as much too low 1 Hundreds of square yards of swamT
 land would have to be filled in, bridges would have to be built across the
 winding brook and creek which runs | through the meadows, and other en- l gineering difficulties would confront l the road builders.
 So, no matter how hard it will b<
 for them to do so. the residents of ths town might as well begin to make up their minds to look pleasant while 1 the Connecticut eonpany's devastat- ing hand ruthless1y cuts down s.tht