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Poet T.S. Eliot said that April was the cruelest month, but for members of the Connecticut Department of Transportation (ConnDOT), April will mark the satisfying end of a muchneeded and much-appreciated four-year highway project. In September 2006, ConnDOT Commissioner Ralph J. Carpenter announced the start of the reconstruction and widening of U.S. Route 7 from Wolfpit Road to Olmstead Hill Road in the town of Wilton. The construction kicked off a series of major highway capitol projects estimated at a total cost of $140 million An average of 25 men worked primarily during the day, with occasional night for the reconstruction and work. widening of U.S. Route 7 in work designed to improve overall traffic operations and from the cities of Danbury to Norwalk, Conn. The contract was awarded on Aug. 11, 2006, to Tilcon safety, according to ConnDOT. Tilcon Connecticut Inc. soon brought in a slew of subConnecticut Inc. of New Britain, Conn., at a contract value of $35,030,663. It was originally scheduled for completion contractors for the four-year span of work projects (see sidein December 2009, but some right-of-way issues put things bar for a complete list), which included the reconstruction back four months to April. Final estimates of the highway and widening of 3 mi. (4.8 km) of Route 7 from Wolfpit work fall in the $42 million range, with some 80 percent of Road to Olmstead Hill Road, by: • Widening the highway from two lanes to four lanes that money being federal and 20 percent state funded. • Providing left turn lanes at key intersections • Improvements to two intersecting state roads and 17 The First Work Work began on Danbury Road (U.S. 7, 7/33/106) and on local roads • Installing 11 new traffic signals and replacing five existRoute 33, Ridgefield Road, in 2006. Utility relocations that had been ongoing for three years ing signals • Plantings and wetland creation area prior continued to supplement and facilitate the construction Four bridges also were rehabilitated, the center of the activities for the widening and reconstruction of Route 7. Dewberry Goodkind of New Haven, Conn., designed the work, including: new highway work and Sept. 13, 2006, saw a promising start see TILCON page 4