Derby, CT is a small, working-class, post-industrial town with a population which has been stagnant at about 12,000 for more than six decades.

The geniuses over at the Connecticut DOT decided that this obviously meant that the town’s Main Street needed to be widened, by twice the size, destroying a number of historic buildings and uprooting numerous small community businesses in the process. That red stripe on the far left of the “After” pic is the new edge of the street.

  • marble
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    3 months ago

    They needed to fix that overhead cable that didn’t meet in the middle.

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      3 months ago

      it’s a screenshot from streetview where such issues often occur when the images are stitched together