Agency Urges $30M For CT Roads: See How Much Your Town Would Get

HARTFORD, CT — The Connecticut Conference of Municipalities called on Governor Dannel Malloy and the State Bond Commission to release $30 million to towns that would help repair local roads and bridges.

The money comes in the form of the Town Aid For Road grants and is the second half of money given in 2017-2018. Funding at this time of the year is critical as towns gear up to repair winter damage, said Kevin Maloney, CCM spokesman.

The item isn’t on the Bond Commission’s agenda for Friday, which has made local leaders nervous. Dollars would come from the state’s Special Transportation The $30 million is already marked in the budget for the grant.

Local governments are responsible for maintaining more than 17,000 miles of road, which is four times as much as the state. The TAR grant was created in 1967 to help local governments maintain and improve roadways.

“The ultimate cost of poor road conditions is significantly more over time than the cost to maintain those same roads in good condition,” Maloney said. “ For example, after 25 years the cost per lane mile for reconstruction can be more than three times the cost of preservation treatments over the same time period, which can lead to a longer overall life span for the infrastructure.”

Towns are hit with a double whammy as the price of diesel fuel and bituminous liquid asphalt has skyrocketed over the years.

Connecticut has a traffic fatality rate of .75 per 100 million vehicle miles of travel, which is lower than the national average of 1.13. State rural roads have a disproportionate amount of fatalities with 1.95 per 100 million travel miles versus .62 for non-rural roads.

Below are how dollars would be divided among towns.

• Andover 95,155
• Ansonia 158,397
• Ashford 145,999
• Avon 156,312
• Barkhamsted 97,723
• Beacon Falls 94,310
• Berlin 166,650
• Bethany 105,531
• Bethel 160,120
• Bethlehem 106,275
• Bloomfield 168,316
• Bolton 100,193
• Bozrah 90,855
• Branford 200,002
• Bridgeport 695,389
• Bridgewater 89,351
• Bristol 331,967
• Brookfield 152,965
• Brooklyn 121,082
• Burlington 130,122
• Canaan 84,889
• Canterbury 112,291
• Canton 130,535
• Chaplin 94,499
• Cheshire 201,609
• Chester 95,511
• Clinton 134,206
• Colchester 174,650
• Colebrook 100,558
• Columbia 102,732
• Cornwall 112,083
• Coventry 147,635
• Cromwell 138,374
• Danbury 431,244
• Darien 169,785
• Deep River 99,207
• Derby 132,605
• Durham 111,267
• East Granby 101,055
• East Haddam 165,606
• East Hampton 159,952
• East Hartford 292,185
• East Haven 200,623
• East Lyme 160,105
• East Windsor 133,633
• Eastford 87,500
• Easton 114,004
• Ellington 168,166
• Enfield 267,017
• Essex 107,403
• Fairfield 357,270
• Farmington 186,719
• Franklin 64,664
• Glastonbury 230,444
• Goshen 138,419
• Granby 129,763
• Greenwich 374,371
• Griswold 96,055
• Groton (Town of) 190,508
• Guilford 180,397
• Haddam 123,031
• Hamden 336,029
• Hampton 94,089
• Hartford 599,489
• Hartland 71,480
• Harwinton 113,662
• Hebron 120,511
• Kent 142,310
• Killingly 180,993
• Killingworth 125,826
• Lebanon 159,007
• Ledyard 148,201
• Lisbon 89,990
• Litchfield 191,826
• Lyme 90,010
• Madison 156,653
• Manchester 321,975
• Mansfield 209,113
• Marlborough 106,136
• Meriden 332,717
• Middlebury 111,487
• Middlefield 98,689
• Middletown 295,205
• Milford 293,986
• Monroe 176,225
• Montville 163,409
• Morris 88,794
• Naugatuck 211,372
• New Britain 383,306
• New Canaan 165,803
• New Fairfield 138,333
• New Hartford 134,857
• New Haven 622,752
• New London 193,498
• New Milford 278,380
• Newington 207,817
• Newtown 235,354
• Norfolk 120,747
• North Branford 140,389
• North Canaan 93,992
• North Haven 179,045
• North Stonington 120,018
• Norwalk 447,147
• Norwich 248,908
• Old Lyme 114,882
• Old Saybrook 123,412
• Orange 137,556
• Oxford 137,280
• Plainfield 144,416
• Plainville 153,630
• Plymouth 130,313
• Pomfret 121,460
• Portland 119,883
• Preston 99,914
• Prospect 120,380
• Putnam 118,877
• Redding 134,631
• Ridgefield 189,706
• Rocky Hill 172,153
• Roxbury 165,622
• Salem 96,767
• Salisbury 142,187
• Scotland 76,888
• Seymour 148,294
• Sharon 178,672
• Shelton 251,788
• Sherman 102,632
• Simsbury 181,798
• Somers 133,959
• South Windsor 190,142
• Southbury 189,053
• Southington 262,459
• Sprague 75,709
• Stafford 196,375
• Stamford 614,393
• Sterling 95,942
• Stonington 148,930
• Stratford 301,155
• Suffield 145,310
• Thomaston 111,362
• Thompson 126,492
• Tolland 169,398
• Torrington 230,103
• Trumbull 232,049
• Union 62,360
• Vernon 200,848
• Voluntown 86,158
• Wallingford 270,379
• Warren 90,794
• Washington 164,983
• Waterbury 536,023
• Waterford 160,349
• Watertown 175,499
• West Hartford 343,454
• West Haven 308,337
• Westbrook 108,390
• Weston 125,886
• Westport 194,278
• Wethersfield 200,364
• Willington 129,066
• Wilton 158,109
• Winchester 150,346
• Windham 183,648
• Windsor 201,617
• Windsor Locks 131,726
• Wolcott 150,979
• Woodbridge 120,323
• Woodbury 147,745
• Woodstock 191,016

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