Education
Darien Officials: Hoyt Street Sidewalk Work Held Up by State Transportation Dept
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The project to build new sidewalks along the southern end of Hoyt Street was supposed to be complete before school started and kids were headed into and out of Holmes School, but crews were working on the sidewalk actually in front of Holmes on the first day of school. Students living north of the elementary school had to walk around open pits, orange cones or cross to the other side of the busy street (where there are no sidewalks). Darien Public Works Director Ed Gentile recently said he hoped to get the project completed by early November, possibly this week. The reason: Hoyt Street is state Route 106 which is controlled by the state Department of Transportation, and the project needed to have a “state encroachment permit” approved by that department’s officials, Gentile said. They took months longer to approve the project than Gentile or other Darien officials thought it would take.
