Wilton: Major Artery Closes, Woe The Lack of Super 7

How many times do we have to close route 7 down before people realize it s not an acceptable artery connecting I-95 to I-84?

Accident closes Route 7 [Friday, 2:28 p.m.]

WILTON — Police closed Route 7 at about 2:10 Friday afternoon after a car hit a utility poll at Sealy Road. The accident site is about one mile north of Wilton High School. According to police, wires are across the road.

Traffic is being detoured and delays should be expected. Police don’t yet know when the road will re-open.

source:The Hour, Accident closes Route 7 [Friday, 2:28 p.m.]
 Ocotber 5, 2007

  • anonymous
  • Aunt Bertha

    Route 7 just stinks. It was never big enough. It was never direct enough. And it was never meant to be a major highway-which is hind sight it should have been.

  • #13 of the Miserable 25

    What is needed is a major problem on RT 7. Like a 300 foot washout, or land slide or anything that would shut it down completely for about a month. Then they might get shocked into the 21st century.

    A nice tornado roaring down the center of the road from the Norwalk town line to RT 84 would be just perfect.

  • The road to hell is paved.

    Oh give me a break. I-95 was closed recently also becuase of an accident. Highways don’t solve congestion or prevent accidents. A recent safety study found that N.Dakota — with straight roads and highways and little congestion had the highest rate of road fatailites — and NJ with lots of congestion, one of the lowest. So, stop with this knee-jerk, highway mania. You can’t pave your way out of congestion. Ain’t gonna happen.

  • Anonymous

    Hey number 4 I’ve got a nice buggy and horse to sell ya. Can you please get out of the 18th century?

  • The road to hell is paved.

    And yours is such 20th century thinking. Remember, this is the 21st…and there are better ways of dealing with transportation. Do a little reading about the latest thinking; there have been some changes since the Eisenhower era.

  • Anonymous

    Number 4 do you shop? Because unless you grow your own food, you are buying goods transported by truck. And trucks need roads. If you think that somehow 50 years of destruction of any kind of alternate transport for produce and livestock is somehow going to be reversed in your lifetime, then I’ll add a bridge to my offer of horse and buggy.

  • The road to hell is paved.

    That’s right, throw up your hands and give in to the oil and automobile lobbies. Think about it. If agribusiness hadn’t killed off small farms, you might not have to have more higheays with more trucks to haul food from parts unknown. Maybe if small producers were handling meat locally, we wouldn’t have the slaughter house and meat packing conditions that contaminate our food with e coli. Don’t tell me that mass distribution and factory farming of food is a good thing and that’s why I should learn to love the highways. We’re not going to build our way out of teh problems with the simplistic solution of more pavement. Super 7 is not needed; innovative thinking is.

  • reality check

    Road to hell is paved … Small farms are not coming back. That is the reality. You can point fingers at the culprits, be 100% right, and still that won’t change things. We are an industrialized food economy, and frankly, the world is better off for it.

  • The road to hell is paved.

    Really? So how come Europeans are not starving and have better quality food than we do — without sacrificing their small produers? You don’t have a lot of e coli events in Italy — and get better tasting meat.

  • The road to hell is paved.

    check out slowfood.com for another view

  • reality check

    road to hell is paved … Have you ever heard of Cadbury Schweppes, Nestle, Danone, Knorr, Ferrero? Global food markets are indeed global.

  • anonymous

    I would think super 7 would cut off at least 15-20 minutes of every trip from norwalk to danbury

  • turfgrrl

    It’s interesting that this thread veered to the food industry and Europe. Part of a good transportation infrastructure does need to address moving people, goods and services. Europe, imho, does it better because they have invested in multi modal transport for all of the above. But even there, new roads get built, especially to address long standing issues of moving between two points efficiently. Super 7 addresses the need to move people, goods and services upstate in the western half of Connecticut. It does not to include mass transportation.But widening the current route 7, ignoring anything to do with mass transportation is not the answer. The accident that closed down route 7 is not the first, nor regrettably the last, but points to how easily the blockages can occur, and at the expense of long commutes, back up traffic to the Merrit which in turn leads to more congestion and accidents. Opponents to Super 7 are 100 percenters perhaps in thinking that opposition will succeed in causing something else. Engagement works better.

  • nwlknative

    Where does “road to hell is paved” think these small farms will exist? There certainly doesn’t seem to be space enough for small farms and raising animals in lower Fairfield County. Most of the open space is in the north west and central part of the State. So, again, the need still exists for roads to transport the food even within the State.

  • Ed Cossone

    1000 YEARS FROM NOW “Road to Hell’s ancestors will still be saying we don’t need Super 7. The truth will be that Wilton & Weston will be paved over as Parking lots for the backed up traffic, their land taken by Eminent Domain.

  • anonymous

    Super 7 isn’t going to be built. Why not take out the part through Norwalk that is built – return land to Spring Hill for park land, build a pedestrian/bike friendly boulevard in its place and return all that land where the cloverleafs are back to Mathews Park. Why are we making it easy for people from Wilton to fly through Norwalk and get onto 95? The land set aside by the state in Wilton for super 7 could be used for building much needed affordable housing, since Wilton is no where close to the state mandated goal of 10% affordable units.

  • anonymous

    If they are not going to finish super 7, they should widen rt 7 as much as possible and eliminate as many intersections as they can. Dead end the connecting roads and have only 1 or 2 connections on 7 for each town. This would elimnate most of the lights and shorten travel time for those who have to use it.

  • anonymous

    #17. Super 7 in norwalk eliminates a lot of traffic on rt 1 and main av and cuts off about 15 minutes when getting from anywhere in norwalk to the wilton line.

  • #13 of the Miserable 25

    Now there is a viable option. The land the state purchased years ago, in Wilton can be used for Low Income housing. This would fill to needs, the need for Wilton to get more affordable and low income housing, and if a developer could be found, even a Walmart and a Mall. This would cut the loss that this land has cost the taxpayer for the last 45 years.

    I think I will E-Mail all our legislators with this idea. Who would be against using this useless land for housing projects, and Malls.

    You know, this is just where this is heading in the future, land is to hard to find and to valuable in Connecticut to just leave it vacant.

    I also believe that some of this land is large enough to be used for a correctional institution. Wiltonites had better recognize the fact that NOTHING is beyond the realm of possibility when politicians put their mind to it.

  • nwlknative

    #17 – Great idea. That would also make the quality of life for those Norwalk residents who live next to the Route 7 connector a lot better. Build a river walk along the river, etc. Just picture it!!

  • #13 of the Miserable 25

    Build a river walk along the river, etc. Just picture it!!

    Good thinking.