No one can argue that our roads in New Canaan are in horrendous condition. It seems like every road in New Canaan has pot holes, cracks, and is in desperate need of repair or repaving.
As Tiger Mann has documented in the Town of New Canaan Pavement and Improvement Program and has stated publicly, the plan for 2011 will cost $2,030,000, the plan for 2012 will cost $2,000,000 and the backlog list will cost $993,000. It is a total cost of $5,023,000 needed for 2011-2012 and we are only issuing a bond for $4,000,000.
Tiger Mann also documented on this program and at the Town Council meeting that the cost of the sidewalks on Old Norwalk Road and Main Street are NOT INCLUDED in the $5,023,000 needed for road repair, road repaving and repair of existing sidewalks. Please review all the facts and VOTE YES at the referendum on Wednesday, April 27 at New Canaan High School from 6 a.m. – 8 p.m. Absentee ballots are available on the town website and contact the Town Clerk with any questions as soon as possible. Check out our website here or e-mail us at ncresponsiblespending@gmail.com.
Vote yes for the $4 million dollars to be spent exclusively on road repair, repaving and repairing our existing sidewalks. Fix our roads first! Vote yes!
http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/vlad11-957346-repave/
http://ncsafestreetsandsidewalks.wordpress.com/
Nice flow chart! And so clear and easy to understand. If that doesn't change a lot of minds I can't imagine what will.
Nancy Helle
The sidewalk will connect a whole new underserved part of Town to downtown, the library, 4 schools, etc -- the Kiwanis park area, The NC Nursery School, Old Norwalk Rd (where people have DIED due to no sidewalks!), Holly, Old Kings, Marvin Ridge, Lincoln, Birchwood, Willowbrook, Cecil, roads backing up to the Transfer Station, as well as White Oak Shade and the roads off of that. Oh and perhaps you should get your YES signs off Town Property first!
No, they're on several properties, on both sides of street. And no fair complaining about sign-packing! The Hobbs's, near top of hill, looks like a gosh-darn shrine to No. Nay, the nays have it not!
I am voting yes! A yes vote because I have no confidence in the town leadership, a yes vote because a sidewalk is a "nice" thing to do in a better economy, but not now. A yes vote because any way I look at it the sidewalk proposal will cost more that they are saying it will. We are all watching our spending carefully and we wish our elected leaders would do so too.
I looked at the map that is linked above and it is a well done rendition. I subsequently drove down Main to see how disruptive it would be. What I saw was one major battle after another and that would significantly delay the repaving. As much as the connecting sidewalks look good on paper and on the web site, I just do not see that turning into a reasonable reality from the terrain it would need to cover. I still vote YES!!!
It is a slippery slope we are going down now that we know how easily one can force a $12,800 referendum (in the name of responsible spending) to get a do-over. The Board of Finance, Town Council and numerous citizens have invested countless hours weighing the facts before deciding to EXPLORE the option to extend the sidewalk. If you do not support the Town Council, please vote for change in the next election. Do not make the sidewalk a scapegoat by using the referendum to push a different agenda. Vote "No" because it is the best interest of the town as a whole.
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