New Britain herald., 1929-08-24

derpass, which fills up with water and ties up traffic every time it rains. On the strength of Mr Mac donald's alleged inability to remedy this condition and in view of the almost impossible and dangerous dirt road used as a detour whenever this condition occurs, Mr Moore was prompted to write the following in terview for the Herald:
 T notice by your paper of August 12th that cars were unable to pass under the railroad at Berlin station as usual after heavy rains, and that long lines of traffic were held up on both sides of the underpass, and that cars were finally forced to go around by Maple Hill.
 More than two years ago, the general assembly voted to make the Cat Hole road between New Brit ain and Meriden, part of the state highway system. This action should have been proposed by the highway commissioner. He should have had full knowledge of the difficulties which traffic from New Britain 10 the south was experiencing, the im- portance of that traffic, the conges- ton and accidents on the post road through Berlin street and south to Meriden. the blockades ocCasoned by l water in the underpass at Berlin sta- ton, and what does he do? Fixes up he Beech swamp road and says New Britain is adequately served by ! highways. At the same time he ap- proves and constructs miles and miles of first class road that serve few of those who are providing the money for his building program.
 "The state of Connecticut is large ly dependent for it's prosperity, and Tn fact. it's good roads, on it's indus tries. If more money comes into the state than we Of Connecticut spend cut of it, that is the measure of our state prosperity. We do not become l prosperous by being niggardly with i roads for our industries and lavish in expenditures for roads for trucks from other states that wear out and injure roads far in excess of any money they spend en route across | Connecticut"
 "The federal government reCog- nizes the value of industries to the community by ascertaining the value added to raw materials bought by the industries. A recent survey by the department of commerce shows that New Britain adds annually ovoC forty eight million dollars 10 the value of the raw material it buys As most of it's products are sold out of the state, in fact all over the world, much of this large sum re- mains in Connecticut, and part is added to her wealth.
 The city of New Britain ranks 18th in all New England in the value added to it's products.
 Our population contributes liber- ally towarCS the states expenses as would be expected. The industries of our city however, have also paid very large sums into the state treas ury eXacted in recent years by the state tax on incomes of corporations one year paying next to the highest amount of any city in the state. Ii would seem as if the man in whose power the state places the eXpendi- tUre of such huge sums as are ap- propriated for highways, should sec that his most important function is to care reasonably for the needs oi the industries that are so important to the commonwealth.
 Careful surveys have been made of the saving in trucking originating from New Britain alone. If the Cat Hole road were constructed. g yearly saving in excess of $l50, ,00t would without doubt be realized To this s150,00O should be added the saving to Meriden and New Haver of industrial traffic going north, tho advantage to private and pleasure cars, and not least of all, the saving to life and limb by lessening thu traffic through the underpass a Berlin station and on the post roa" from Berlin to and through Merider as well as accidents at the Merider grade crossing. Continuing these easily avoidable menaces to the live! of our people and the unnecessary burden on our industries by the fail ure of the highway commissioner t' conform the will of the people aftc
 it has been expressed in no uncertain terms by act of legislature, canno
 increase our confidence in the ad
 rlinistration ot this most importan
 department of our commonwealth
 l930 should see the road completed
 and of as good construction as an. : road in Connecticut
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