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At Friday's presser: Alder Herrera, Mayor Elicker, public works union President David Lawlor, public works Superintendent of Streets Steve Mustakos, acting public works Director Bombero, City Engineer Zinn.
Another season of grinding up and repairing roads kicked off on Friday, as the mayor and top public works officials gathered on Edwards Street to celebrate $3 million worth of milling and paving to come.
That press conference took place at Edwards Street and Foster Street in East Rock at around 9:30 a.m.
Mayor Justin Elicker, City Engineer Giovanni Zinn, Acting Department of Parks & Public Works Director Rebecca Bombero, and Fair Haven/East Rock Alder Claudia Herrera, among others, gathered to announce the start of the city’s 2023 street paving season.
The mayor said that, over the course of the coming warm-weather months, 40 roads across the city will be churned up, re-asphalted and repaired thanks to $3 million worth of milling and paving work.
“If we kept paving and paving and paving, the streets would get higher and higher and higher,” Elicker said. That would throw off the curb and sidewalk’s relation to the roadway and potentially endanger the utilities underneath. Thus the need to tear up a few inches of roadway before laying down fresh asphalt and smoothing everything out.
Milling on Edwards.
This is an opportunity “to do a lot of other things that help the roadway around drainage, safety, and preserving infrastructure we have,” added Zinn. “It’s a lot less expensive to repave a road then to rebuild a road.”
See below for a full list of roads that will be milled and paved this spring. This list includes 22 roads, mostly on the east side of town. A fall list of roads to be milled and paved will focus on the west side of town.
