Statewide transportation budget cuts hit Avon’s planned pedestrian safety improvements to U.S. Highway 6

Statewide transportation budget cuts hit Avon’s planned pedestrian safety improvements to U.S. Highway 6

Avon has been trying to make U.S. Highway 6 safer for pedestrians for over a decade. The culmination of this work — a project that will include a traffic light at Stonebridge Drive and four lighted pedestrian crossings, set to begin construction in June — has been injured by the state legislature’s cuts to transportation funding. Eva Wilson, Avon’s engineering director, presented on the changes to the project’s budget to the Town Council Tuesday…