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Business New Haven
9/22/1997
By: BNH
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Two-Lane Blacktop
For those who really care about the future of New Haven and its economic vitality, I have the best solution for what to do about the Godforsaken Quinnipiac River Bridge (BNH, August 25).
Instead of expanding it into 27 lanes in each direction, we ought to shrink the thing to a two-lane bridge - one lane northbound, one lane southbound. Further, southbound should be closed to all traffic from 7 to 9 a.m. weekdays, and northbound closed from 5 to 7 p.m. weekdays. Therefore, if you want to work and/or have a business in New Haven, and take dollars out of the city's economy, you can live here, like the rest of us.
New Haven neighborhoods and New Haven motorists shouldn't have to pay the price so that some assistant vice president downtown can get a free ride on his property taxes in Madison.
Makes sense, no?
- Gene Connerly
New Haven
Let 'Em Eat No Cake
It was revealing to learn from the Connecticut Technology Council that a higher percentage of Connecticut workers are employed by technology-based companies than are those of any other state (BNH, September 8). Still, our image as a withering defense- and insurance-based state continues to dominate perceptions throughout the region and, perhaps, the nation.
It will take concentrated and focused leadership at the state level to craft a clear, coherent marketing message that, technologically speaking, Connecticut is “open for business.” Rather than the I'll-take-one-of-each “cluster” approach on the part of the Department of Economic & Community Development, about which you have often written, Connecticut's leaders have to make the tough decisions about which industries can really lead us into the next century.
If that means someone leaves the table without a piece of cake, then so be it.
- Gerard D'Angelic
Clinton
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