As many of you know, I am a proud son of Connecticut. I was born in New Haven which is a great little city suffering from some tragic planning mishaps. The town itself is a nice but when they laid out where I-95 was to go, they put it right along the coast of the harbor. As everyone knows, highways = shit. So New Haven harbor is one of the ugliest, most industrial looking eyesores on the entire CT coast (not as bad as Bridgeport, however). The highway also cuts the city of New Haven off from its own harbor, so none of the residents can make their way there. Not that they’d want to, since all that resides there are oil tanks and scrap metal yards. Basically, the city of New Haven can’t really make use of it’s beautiful harbor and all of the real estate that lives there because of loud, crowded I-95.
So, may I propose to the city father of New Haven the S. John Seidell New Haven Rehabilitation Program. It goes in 5 phases.
1. Re-route I-95 through East Haven, avoiding New Haven proper.
2. Re-Route I-91 throgh Fair Haven and connect it to I-95 before the city.
3. Build a huge suspension bridge - all the great cities have them - over New Haven harbor and land both 95 and 91 in West Haven.
4. Convert what was 95 and 91 to small connector roads WITH traffic lights to get to the city center.
5. Finally, move the harbor industry to Bridgeport. Your harbor won’t need to make money anymore since it will be pricey real estate. Plus, you can throw a toll on the bridge and make some money back that way. OR you could try to get Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun to pay into the building costs since it will speed the trip from New York.
So, New Haven, we got a deal?
sounds great. i love city planning.
