Yesterday I received my weekly email from the Town Supervisor's office, with Supervisor Nesbitt's latest column (which be posts online and is reprinted in the Webster Herald and Webster Post, when they feel like it). Since this week's column speaks directly to issues near and dear to our hearts -- improvements to Route 104 and Ridge Road -- I thought everyone would be interested in seeing his comments here:
"On Tuesday, April 10th Gary Kleist and Don Hauza from our Engineering Department, Joe Herbst from our Highway, Glenn Cooke from
WCCED, Barry Deane from the Town Board and I met with a number of representatives from the State Department of Transportation. We were informed that Route 104 from the Bay Bridge east to Phillips Road will be re-paved and re-striped this summer.
However, Route 404 is another story. Right now state workers are patching pot holes on 404 and I think it is not a forward way of fixing the long term problem. This summer they might look at fixing the intersections of Holt Road and Ridge Road and Phillips Road and Ridge Roads; a fix of re-paving that might last a couple of years.
At this time, in 2014, Route 404 is scheduled to get re-paved and the shoulders of the road fixed. In 2015 the intersections would be brought up to standards by improving the intersections with turn lanes and longer stacking lanes.
We did hear during our one-hour meeting that money was a problem and allocations needed to be made within districts within the state. We were also assured that Webster is receiving its share of money with a lot of the money being spent recently on the Bay Bridge."
Supervisor Nesbitt also addressed the continuing possibility of a Wendy's restaurant being built across from Town Hall on Ridge Road, a project which has been at a stand-still for quite a while. Click here to read what Nesbitt had to say about that.
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