The Advocate - Opponents: 'Time for Super 7 has passed': "Opponents of the long-stalled Super 7 highway between Danbury and Norwalk yesterday lashed out against a proposal to revive it.
Plans for the controversial highway are dead, critics said, and it is pointless for lawmakers to discuss it. Super 7 has been in limbo for more than 50 years because of opposition from Wilton, Ridgefield and Redding.
'The time for the Super 7 has passed,' Ridgefield First Selectman Rudy Marconi said during a public hearing of the legislature's Transportation Committee at the Capitol. 'May it rest in peace.'
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"This would be one of the worst environmental things that has ever happened to this state," said Roger Reynolds, a staff attorney for the Connecticut Fund for the Environment. "Superhighways don't decrease congestion. They increase congestion."
