NY-CONN workers are digging four 15-foot holes for a traffic light at the Osborne Street and Fifth Avenue intersection, a task that may slow traffic for three weeks.
Travis Mastrogiannis of NY-CONN said Tuesday morning that each hole takes a day to dig, if they're lucky. Workers will also cut trenches for wires, which will slow traffic.
After digging a hole, roughly 15 feet deep by four feet wide, workers place steel rings into the hole to support the light poles they will hold. Each hole is then filled with cement. Workers reached the stage of pouring concrete into the first hole Tuesday afternoon by 4:30 p.m. Work on digging that hole started Monday.
The light is designed to improve traffic flow at the Fifth Avenue and Osborne Street intersection, which is crowded by Osborne Street traffic, Western Connecticut State University traffic, Danbury Hospital traffic and also by cars leaving the school facilities building across from Fifth Avenue.
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