I truly love my home on Jackson Lane off the Crockett Ridge Road in Norway. The only bad thing about my new home is the two-mile stretch of horrible road from the Pleasant Street Corner to Jackson Lane and beyond.
My work takes me on hundreds of side roads a year throughout Maine and New Hampshire, and for a town-maintained road, this stretch of road is the absolute worst I have ever seen.
It was last paved 28 years ago and is now a series of cold-tar speed bumps, boulders in the road poking through and an obstacle course of potholes. This road eats local taxpayers’ tie rods, steering racks, shocks, struts, mufflers and destroys our tires and has for more than 20 years.
At a recent town meeting involving the residents of Crockett Ridge Road, we were informed that the road is scheduled to be partially repaired this summer and will be completed “as the funds become available.” Yet the municipal tennis court on Cottage Street is being torn up and a brand new tar surface will be completed this summer using money saved by the town over the years for this work. Whose money?
I’m sure glad our town planners don’t want tennis players breaking their new tennis sneakers on the rough pavement like us poor folks in Millettville have been wrecking our cars for years. Go figure.
Al Pelletier, Norway
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