
AP/Toby Talbot
Chad Poston of VTrans moves a sign on Route 107 in Bethel, in preparation for its reopening in December of 2011.
Tropical
Storm Irene damaged hundreds of roads and a few dozen bridges across the state
last August. Almost immediately, VTRANS crews went into overdrive, repairing
and replacing roads. They were hurrying to restore access to towns and crucial
corridors - and they were also racing winter. So not all of those fixes were
intended to be permanent. With the return of warm weather, the Agency of
Transportation is surveying the hundreds of sites they repaired last summer and
fall to find out how all that construction is holding up.
Wayne Gammell, maintenance administrator for VTRANS, and one
of the people in charge of the scan tour spoke with Vermont Edition about the results.