Ed. Note: This note comes from Ben Daviss, a member of the Walpole Planning Board. CCB
Hearings on Vilas Bridge Reconstruction Schedule
Walpole area residents who want decision-makers to know how urgent it is to re-establish the Vilas Bridge will have a chance to tell them on Wednesday this week--TOMORROW! The Governor's Advisory Committee on Intermodal Transportation will meet on at 6:30 on September 30 in Keene at the Parks and Recreation Building at 312 Washington St. After the formal business of the meeting is done -- no way to be sure how long that will take -- the public will be offered the chance to speak. It would be great to have a large contingent of people there to express our area's acute need to have our bridge back sooner than 2016, as now planned. We're told that it will take more than three years of planning and construction to re-open it, so we need that work to start this year, not two or three years from now.
For anyone who finds it more convenient, the advisory committee also will be meeting at 8 a.m. on October 14 in Alstead's town offices.
