State Sen. Cathy Osten, D-Sprague, has said she will continue to advocate for a bill calling for an economic study of the area surrounding the Mohegan-Pequot Bridge despite the public-hearing testimony of two state commissioners who suggested last week that a pending transportation study should come first. The bill’s 10 co-sponsors include Osten and eight other members of the southeastern Connecticut delegation. It would require O’Keefe and Eucalitto to jointly conduct or commission an economic study of areas in Montville and Preston to determine whether the capacity of the Mohegan-Pequot Bridge adequately serves them. The proposed study would assess whether the bridge “permits the convenient, safe and expeditious flow of traffic” to the areas and the extent to which the bridge’s capacity will be affected by developments on the Mashantucket Pequot reservation and elsewhere.
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