Connecticut Transportation Commissioner Garrett Eucalitto announced the Connecticut is providing $16.8 million in state grants to 11 towns and cities to support the reconstruction of 13 bridges on locally owned roads.
Awarded under the latest round of the State Local Bridge Program, which is administered by the Connecticut Department of Transportation (CTDOT), this state-funded program operates as a cost-matching grant that provides municipalities with 50 percent of the project costs necessary for the reconstruction of municipal bridges.
The Connecticut General Assembly established the State Local Bridge Program in 1984 under the state's Infrastructure Renewal Program. Connecticut has approximately 4,200 local bridges and culverts on municipally maintained roads. Because these structures are the responsibility of the towns and cities that own them, the State Local Bridge Program offers significant financial relief for their construction and upkeep, according to CTDOT.
Since 2016, approximately $180 million in grants have been awarded to Connecticut cities and towns through the program, added CTDOT.
"Whether it's kids going to school, people heading to work or traveling to visit friends and family, every community depends on bridges that are safe and built to last," Gov. Ned Lamont said. "This grant program provides significant relief to our towns and cities, helping them tackle costly infrastructure projects they couldn't take on alone."
"By partnering with our cities and towns, we are helping move these projects from planning to construction while making travel safer and more reliable for everyone," Eucalitto said.
The grants awarded under this latest round of the program include:
- Burlington: Replace Bridge #020003, Alto Road over unnamed brook ($636,750)
- Fairfield: Replace Bridge #050020, Old Field Road over Pine Creek ($2,985,089)
- Harwinton: Replace Bridge #065005, Gale Road over unnamed stream ($600,750)
- Harwinton: Replace Bridge #065011, Birch Hill Road over Pickett Brook ($600,750)
- New Canaan: Replace Bridge #089025, Lakeview Avenue over unnamed stream ($1,142,750)
- New Milford: Rehabilitate Bridge #05312, Boardman Road over Housatonic River ($2,656,875)
- Southbury: Replace Bridge #130010, New Road over Spruce Brook ($535,000)
- Stamford: Rehabilitate Bridge #04065, West Broad Street over Rippowam River ($3,731,250)
- Stonington: Replace Bridge #137009, Collins Road over Cattle Path ($770,000)
- Suffield: Replace Bridge #139006, Hickory Road over Fourmile Brook ($778,179)
- Suffield: Replace Bridge #139009, Copper Hill Road over unnamed stream ($841,929)
- West Hartford: Replace Bridge #155014, Old Brook Road over Mountain Farms Brook ($978,075)
- Winchester: Replace Bridge #162008, Newfield Road over Fox Brook ($612,500)
