CT Route 6 Collaborative Update

The Route 6 collaborative planning effort in Connecticut has narrowed the options that will go into the project's draft environmental impact statement to three upgrades to the existing roadway alignment, at least one of which will include bypasses around town centers and other historical

districts. Outcry over initial plans that called for the creation of a four-lane, limited access rural highway brought Connecticut DOT, EPA and the Army Corps of Engineers into close consultation with town governments, Connecticut Fund for the Environment and local activists organized as

Citizens for Sensible Six (a Tri-State Transportation Campaign affiliate member). Participants in the collaborative will continue meeting once a week until the end of November, seeking consensus on a preferred alternative or, failing that, narrowing the DEIS options to two.