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Posted 21 January 2018 - 11:35 AM

New Haven (CT) Register, 1/21/18:
 

DOT hindering West Haven Metro-North ridership by blocking off parking to store snow, station advocate Mercuriano says

 

 

WEST HAVEN — The state Department of Transportation is hindering development of the West Haven Metro-North railroad station's ridership by blocking off dozens of parking spaces for storage of plowed snow, railroad station advocate Michael Mercuriano says.

 

A DOT spokesman says, however, that the train station's parking lots are only about 85 percent full and the number of spaces being used for snow storage in the lot on the Hood Terrace (south) side of the tracks is minimal.

 

"Snow storage in the lot is using about 21 parking spaces out of a total of roughly 650 spaces," said DOT spokesman Kevin Nursick. "We have typically stored the snow in this manner, with no negative ramifications."

 

Mercuriano says the station actually loses "close to 50 spaces ... which is terrible for the commuter."

 

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