In fact, in Bridgeport, per municipal regulations, the elected members of the 20-person City Council have final say over which streets get improved, a power their peers in Hartford, New Haven and Stamford lack. And it will remain that way for the foreseeable future. The council has shot down a proposal to instead give the public facilities director authority over “pavement activities.” But others question whether it is the most objective, most efficient way to take care of Bridgeport’s 278 miles of municipally maintained thoroughfares and byways and the estimated $92 million backlog of fixes and upgrades. City Engineer Jon Urquidi that night argued that the current process — divvying up the annual allotment of budgeted paving dollars among the 10 council districts and obtaining council representatives’ lists of priorities — is not the best approach.
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