By Philip Sean Curran, Staff Writer
Cranbury will turn to the Department of Transportation for $1.5 million to repair Brick Yard Road through a program the state has for infrastructure projects that serve freight transportation.
“We fit all the criteria, so I think we have a great shot for being considered for it,” Mayor David Cook said at the Township Committee meeting Monday. “But our hopes are pretty good and strong that I think we’ll be allocated monies.”
Brick Yard Road, he said, needs to be “rebuilt” and is in bad shape.
“It’s not just a milling and repaving, it’s the road bed underneath,” he said of a roughly one-mile-long road that serves as an artery to a warehousing district.
The road itself has a long history in town, into a section of the community where bricks were made and later munitions for the federal government.
Mayor Cook said the town has until Dec. 19 to submit its application for the grant. The town has funds to make up the difference if it does not get the full $1.5 million it will seek.
“We have money set aside that had been supplied by the warehouses,” he said in putting that amount at $725,000. “But it’s not enough to cover the job.”
Should the town get the full $1.5 million, officials can use the $725,000 for other roads, he said.
