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The latest plans for the former University of Connecticut campus in West Hartford give the most detailed look yet of how the property could be redeveloped.
When consultants surveyed West Hartford residents about the future of LaSalle Road in the town center, plenty of people recommended banning vehicles altogether to make it a pedestrian plaza, others wanted a return to two-way traffic, and another group endorsed keeping the one-way traffic pattern intact.
Donors included utilities, insurers, a trash hauler, a beer distributor, manufacturers of helicopters and jet engines, trade associations representing nursing homes and optometrists, and a construction union that endorsed Lamont’s reelection.
Hartford’s Asylum Avenue a major east-west thoroughfare traveled by thousands daily but beleaguered by motor vehicle speeding and crashes could be in for a dramatic makeover.