Residents get first look at DelDOT’s preferred West Dover Connector route

[Chase]

Residents get first look at DelDOT’s preferred West Dover Connector route
By Jeff Brown, News Editor
Dover Post

Dover, Del. — The sagging economy and budget cutbacks may have had a lot of people thinking the West Dover Connector proposal had long ago been buried and forgotten.

Not so. Even though it’s been almost five years since the last public meeting on the project, engineers at the state Department of Transportation have quietly been working on the project, intended to direct traffic around the west side of town.

DelDOT officials publicly unveiled their preferred route alternative Sept. 28 at a workshop where about 200 area residents had the chance to look at and comment on the plans.

Written remarks taken at the meeting ranged from “There’s nothing in this plan that I like,” to “It’s the only one of the plans that makes sense. Let’s get moving.” A sampling showed most of those at the workshop were split about 50/50 on the proposal.

“Preferred Alternative 5C Modified” starts at the intersection of Saulsbury Road and North Street, runs back behind the General Foods plant and across Puncheon Run, then partially parallels New Burton Road. It takes a large loop across the Kesselring Farm before taking a bridge over New Burton and the Norfolk Southern Railroad tracks, skirting the soon-to-be-built Boy Scout campground and hooking into Charles Polk Road at Rodney Village.



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[TomS70]

It sure looks like a long way to avoid downtown Dover.

[lewin]

yeah take them threw rodney village... hope no one gets mugged