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The Grand Avenue Bridge.
The State Bond Commission Tuesday OK’d sending New Haven $12.5 million toward the $25.5 million renovation of the Grand Avenue Bridge.
That was among 10 transportation-related projects approved for funding at the commission meeting — the first at which Gov. Ned Lamont is overall carrying out a “debt diet” that has Connecticut borrowing less money than it used to.
New Haven State Sen. Martin Looney, whose district includes the bridge, called the project a “critical investment.”
“The Grand Avenue Bridge is an idyllic fixture of the community which will now be refurbished to serve another generation,” Looney is quoted as saying in a press release issued after the vote.
The same release quotes State Rep. Al Paolillo Jr., who also represents the district, predicting the bridge project “will help set the economic landscape with jobs during construction and after the project is completed.”
Click here and here to read previous stories about the bridge project.
