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Message: [QUOTE="RSHERMVIKES, post: 2256030, member: 2251"] When I came to CT in August 1973 from MO I went up to Hartford on Route 85 to Route 11 to Route 2. Coming home I had to get off in Salem and back to 85. I was told that the Route 11 project ran out of money falling $11 million short. You would think some visionary would say it's only going to get MORE expensive if we delay! Now some state agencies are saying it'll take close to a billion $ to finish Route 11! Keeping the dangerous 85 as one of the methods of getting to Hartford! Back in the '90's East Lyme wanted to put additions on ELHS for the academic end and also a pool and field house complex. The plans were drawn up with the pool being in the basement with 100 lockers for boys and 100 lockers for girls, training room, PE classrooms, and BB court and offices on first floor. The financing had approximately 72% returned by the state & federal! At the last minute they eliminated the athletic addition. They just put a pool in. After construction was finished the school board wanted to add an athletic addition and was priced out leaving an educational section for the 21st century and an athletic section that is back in the 1960's! Two examples where forward planning would have solved many problems we face today in CT and EL! [/QUOTE]