21 Sep 1977
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Newspaper
Bridgeport Telegram
Location
Bridgeport, Connecticut, United States of America
Date
Sep 21, 1977
Page
1
A master plan for Norwalk parks received final approval, signaling a push to develop facilities and improve public spaces across the city. Local officials touted potential enhancements and community access, with funding details and timelines to be announced.
Bridgeport will install two new synchronized traffic light systems in the Main Street and Railroad Avenue areas. City Traffic Director Thomas L. Fava says the state will cover the initial costs in a joint city-state project. The Main Street work between Gilvert and Congress is about $400,000, while Railroad Avenue will get a similar rollout on both sides of the divided street. The signals will operate in a timed sequence with speeds guiding progress, aimed at reducing stops and eliminating slowdowns in the city center.
City officials in Bridgeport announce a major sewer and pollution control program with a projected cost near 100 million dollars funded largely by federal grants. A public information session is set for tonight at City Hall to discuss long range plans including separate sanitary and storm sewers, a new interceptor sewer, and a city wide sewage treatment system by Watermation Inc. The project aims to eliminate combined sewers to meet federal standards and involves consulting engineers and multiple major contractors.
The Bridgeport school desegregation plan has been rejected by the State Education Department. The Board of Education must submit a new plan by October 17 to avoid jeopardy to state funds and potential investigations. The plan’s emphasis on quality education aims to reduce racial isolation, naming several city high and junior high schools and proposing new information centers, training programs, and a North End core school.
Washington AP report says Hart Lance allegedly asked federal banking regulator to ease restrictions on the First National Bank of Calhoun Georgia before his appointment. IRS sources recount a secondhand memo describing a Feb Miami conversation. Lance Tarleton deny pressing to lift the agreement, while Tarleton recalls only a general mention of bank improvements.
The House rejected President Carter's bid to kill the breeder reactor program by wide margins. Votes favored continuing funding with a phased approach and set aside $140 million to keep the project on schedule at Clinch River, despite Carter’s veto warnings.
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