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Hazards and Headaches * USA - On a Mountain Road in Connecticut
AVON, Conn.,USA -The New York Times, by KEN BELSON -September 30, 2007: -- This picturesque New England town is filled with white churches, lush lawns and high-end boutiques. It has also developed a reputation for thickening truck traffic and some of the deadliest accidents in the state... The stretch of Route 44 that rolls west from Hartford, over Avon Mountain and into this town of 17,000 is Connecticut’s version of Dead Man’s Curve. Since 1995, 14 people have died in accidents on the road... About 23,000 vehicles a day make the trek in both directions, including more than 1,100 trucks, which are a constant cause for concern because of their size and the 10 percent grade of the mountain. Truck traffic has grown because more stores keep just-in-time inventories that demand constant replenishing. Increasingly, the truckers delivering the goods are unfamiliar with the local roads... Trucking companies agree that banning their vehicles on a major road like Route 44 will not only clog other roads but also raise the cost of delivering goods. They also say that by not widening roads, Avon’s traffic will only worsen... (Photo by Christopher Capozziello/NYT - Marcia Goldberg in her family’s furniture store in Avon, Conn. This month, an out-of-control truck crashed into the shop)Labels: infrastructures
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