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BELLOWS FALLS â After months of on-again, off-again discussion, the town of Rockingham and the village of Bellows Falls have told the Vermont Agency of Transportation âno thanksâ to its driverless car experiment.
The automatic car project would have allowed a private company to come in and use local roads to test the vehicles.
In Vermont, only the town of Springfield has signed up for the experiment, and now with the Rockingham-Bellows Falls rejection, only the town of Alburgh has expressed interest, state officials said.
During one of their regular joint meetings this week, the Rockingham Select Board and Bellows Falls Village Board of Trustees failed to even muster a motion on the issue, with Agency of Transportation officials watching via Zoom.
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BELLOWS FALLS â Rockingham and Bellows Falls turned their collective eyes Tuesday night to Rep. Peter Welch, D-Vt., with hopes of securing an $11 million federal budget earmark to pay for the repairs for the closed Vilas Bridge.
The Rockingham Select Board and the Bellows Falls Village Board of Trustees, meeting in joint session, each approved separate resolutions to Welch, formally requesting the earmark, or âcommunity projectâ as they are being called. The deadline for such requests is in early April.
The town and village are hoping that the renewed federal funding program, and the emphasis by the new Biden administration on repairing the nationâs infrastructure, means that there will finally be some action on the bridge, which was closed by the state of New Hampshire 12 years ago because of the bridgeâs deteriorating condition.