ANSONIA - Drivers heading north on East Main Street are soon going to have to look for another route past Kingston Drive toward the intersection with Main Street and State Street, where the new police station is currently under construction.
That’s because that section of the street will become one-way only. The city has contracted Colonna Concrete and Asphalt Paving, based out of Woodbridge, to begin work on East Main Street in two weeks. The job is expected to take about 90 days.
John Marini, the city’s corporate counsel said that the city’s push to change the layout of the street is to accommodate an expected influx of new apartments and businesses.
“It's really about parking, it's about increasing the parking downtown because of everything going on all the activity, the apartments coming online, police station, restaurants, we really need to up the parking downtown,” Marini said.
The city first announced the change in an October public hearing, according to Sheila O’Malley, the economic development director. The street itself will not be closed during construction. The plan calls for East Main Street to be turned into a one-way heading south for about 1,200 feet starting from the new police station and ending at Kingston Drive. From there the road will continue to be a two way street.
O’Malley said that while the street is wide, not as many cars pass through compared to nearby roads and that part of the street could be put to better use.
“It doesn't get the traffic volume that people think it does, but it doesn't,” O’Malley said.
The new street layout will allow for 120 new parking spaces, O’Malley said. The new spaces will be of particular importance to new residents moving into nearly 300 renovated apartments that will occupy former industrial buildings on the street. Currently, that section of the road has no on-street parking.
Josh Eannotti is the project manager for East Main Street and works for VHB, a consulting company. He said the project will do more than just paint new parking spots and get rid of the double yellow line.
“Although this is a relatively small streetscape project lengthwise, there's really a lot to it,” he said. “The contractor will have quite a bit of clearing and excavation to do.”
The contractor will also build retaining walls, install sidewalks and drainage facilities, and install decorative lighting, according to Eannotti. The project is expected to cost about $385,000, according to the state’s Department of Transportation, which is funding the project through a grant.
In two public hearings, O’Malley said the city had not heard any concerns from local businesses.
“I would suspect that they're going to get more traffic in their area, and that's probably going to be a really good thing for them,” she said.
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