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Rest Stop
operated Subway sandwich and Wendy's Ham-
burgers fast-food counters, Bolduc said.
Public restrooms will be available, along
with showers — three for males; one for
females, Bolduc said. The travel center will
be within half a mile of several motels on the
southbound side of I-91, along Weston Street.
A Hartford visitors venter also will be housed
on the Pride premises. Bolduc said Pride request-
ed the on-site visitors center; he assumes it will
be manned by the city since the travel center
itself is a joint cooperative venture with the city.
He said that cooperative venture is the
reason hiring for the travel center will focus
on city residents, partly because their prox-
imity would mean less difficulty getting to
work, particularly in inclement weather, but
also because "we want to support the city. We
want to be good neighbors."
Bolduc said Pride hasn't petitioned the
state for financial assistance to erect and
staff the travel center, nor does it plan to.
He said it's possible Pride could build more
travel centers in Connecticut, but for now it has
no such plans. Pride is developing its fourth trav-
el center in Westfield, Mass., but no construction-
opening timetable has been set, Bolduc said.
Bolduc firmly insists the Hartford facility
"isn't a truck stop,'' since private motorists,
too, will share the facility.
However, he acknowledged that a key fac-
tor for developing the Hartford travel center
is the dearth of safe parking and rest areas
for truckers who, by federal law, are limited
in how many hours they are allowed at the
wheel without rest.
Connecticut Department of Transportation
spokesman Kevin Nursick said the agency's lat-
est survey showed a deficit of some 1,200 "safe
and suitable" parking slots daily statewide.
Often, tired truckers are forced to pull off the
highway to park and rest at on- and exit ramps,
local streets, or and in retail, service station
and apartment parking lots.
FindFuelStops.com lists at least 10 state-
owned service plazas, plus another 18 large,
privately owned truck refueling stations along
Connecticut's interstates and major state roads.
According to Nursick, state traffic surveys
in 2010 found that one of every five vehicles
traveling the stretch of I-84 eastbound, from
state Route 195 leading to Storrs to the Mas-
sachusetts border, was a semi.
"It's really good news to hear someone is
talking about putting a rest stop in Hartford,''
said Michael J. Riley, president of the Hart-
ford-based Motor Transport Association of
Connecticut. "There have been several stud-
ies … indicating Connecticut doesn't provide
enough [trucker] rest areas.
"Any addition of truck parking spaces …
is a positive step,'' Riley said. "These men and
women need places to park and rest.'' n
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