The Waterbury Democrat., 1940-08-30

Construction in force in the state of Connecticut announced by the Connecticut Highway Department August 2S, 1940 for the week ending September 2, 194o, together with surface oiling and stone surfaclng This report does not include either the Merritt Parkway or the Wilbur Gross Parkway, both of which are being constructed on new location.
 Closed for Standardization
 Provided
 Route No. U. s. East Haven, East Haven cutoff. Approximately IS miles of reinforced concrete and rolled gravel pavement.
 Route No. U. s. 1A-Stonington. Grade crossing elimination in the village of Stonington-617 ft.-6 in. span steel I-heam viaduct over rail road tracks and steel footbridge over railroad tracks at Elm street under construction. Elm street closed to traffic. Traffic may pass on Wa ter street.
 Route No. S3-Wilton. Construet- ing grade crossing elimination and bridge over NerWalk river on the Ridgefield road, near the Wilton railroad station. Traffic must use south Y branch for Route 33. Road is open to railroad station only.
 Route No. U. s. 44-Canton and New Hartford. HaRtford- Winsted road. 21s miles of reinforced con- crete pavement. Open to traffic. However, traffic may detour via routes 4 and 219.
 Winchester. Constructing 7h miles of concrete pavement from the city of Winsted west; also grading and drainage installation Detour is provided by routes l8S and 182. Construction-Traffic Maintained
 Route No. U. s. 1-Bridgeport Fairfield avenue. 4,400 feet of E. inch sheet asphalt 62 feet wide.
 Greenwich. Puts Hill. 1,18l feet of 8 in, reinforced concrete pave ment.
 Milford. Wilbur Cross Parkway bridge over Route U. s. l. Route No. U. s. Fairfield. B. 978 feet of 40-60 fit. concrete pave ment on Kings highway.
 Fairfield. 5,846 feet of concrete pavement 60 in. wide on Kings high way.
 Milford. 14,O29 feet of bituminous maeadam resurfacing on North Broad street, West River street, Prospect Place and North street.
 Route No. 2-North Stonington. Relocation of this route around yil- lage of North Stonington. No hin- dranee to traffic over present route.
 Route Nos. 2 and 15-East Hart ford. IA miles of reinforced con- crete pavement on Glastonbury East Hartford road.
 Route No. U, s. 5-South Wind- sor and East Windsor. &-mile of reinforced concrete pavement on the Hartford-S Springfield road. Tenn porary bridge provided.
 Route No. U. s. 5A-Windsor 31a miles of reinforced concrete pavement on Hartford Windsor road.
 Route No. U. s. 7-North Canaan. Constructing bridge over Blackberry river, about 800 feet south of junes tion of routes U. s. 2 and U. s. A. Open to traffic over temporary bridge.
 Route No. 8-Shelon, Derby and Ansonia. Removal of tralley rails and resurfacing road with 10,377 linear feet of in. sheet asphalt on concrete base.
 Thomaston. Repairs to Reynolds Bridge.
 Route No. -6imsbury and Granby. 7.2 miles of mix-in-place bituminous surface and bituminous macadam surface under construc- ton on College Highway. one-way traffic in places.
 Route No. Middletown. Elimin- aitno of dangerous condition on the MiddletoWn- Durham road.
 Route No. 20.-Barkhamsted Bridge over west branch of Farm- ington river at Riverton. Temporary bridge provided.
 oranby. salmon Brook Channel Improvement.
 dranby and East Granby. 2 i-4 miles of hituminous macadam sur- face on dranby- y-East Granhy road.
 Route No. 4i--Sharon. Construct Ing box culvert near Main street sharon. Open to traffic over tein- porary bridge.
 Route Nos. 6o and 6e-Prospect 0aO L. Y. of olk ln. hitumlnnus nlac- adam pavement at Prospect Inter-