COLCHESTER, Vt. -
Many of our Facebook fans expressed concerns about a stretch of road in Colchester following a motorcycle accident Monday night.
The Bay Road and Route 7 intersection features a blinking light and several stop signs, but some believe that's not enough.
From 2006 through 2010 VTrans leaders say nearly 40 accidents happened there.
"So that's one of the worst intersections in the state, in terms of accidents," said Fox44?
"Correct," said VTrans Traffic & Safety & Paving Manager Bruce Nyquist.
Nyquist says it's worse a few hundred feet away at the 2A intersection, where more than 45 accidents took place during that same time frame.
It's a problem he says his department has been working on for more than a decade.
But because they have to acquire land, and clear environmental issues, it won't be fixed for at least three more years.
"When we start to look at an intersection we can't just make changes over night," said Nyquist.
Traffic lights will be added to the Bay Road intersection.
No lights will come to Route-2A, but cars will be forced to stop perpendicular to Route-7, and a nearby hill will be lowered to add visibility.
The project will also put an island in front of a nearby gas station, that way state leaders say motorists aren't coming in and out of the businesses from the middle of the intersection.
Even though it might take awhile, VTrans leaders say its sights like these that highlight why changes need to come.
"From our perspective it is moving forward," said Nyquist.
The project will cost $2.9-million dollars.
VTrans leaders say it should be completed by 2017.
