The Stamford Advocate took proponents of double-decking I-95 and widening the Merrit Parkway (see MTR #384) to task in an editorial last week, saying that the ideas were worthy only of denunciation.

“We thought Connecticut might have learned from what has happened over the years in Southern California, where proliferation of highways — and the expansion of them later — simply encouraged more people to drive longer distances to their jobs,” the paper argued.

Incongruously, however, the paper backed the widening of U.S. Rte 7 and I-84, because they do not parallel commuter rail lines. The sprawl-traffic dynamic the paper identifies as a California problem will occur in these corridors just as readily.

Report from TSB "Movement of Goods and People" working group 

CT Proposal Would Double-Deck I-95 (Sept. 23, 2002)

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