By Joan Pritchard, Bridgewater.
Somerset County is one of the wealthiest counties in the United States, yet the infrastructure and transportation system remain neglected. The Freeholders have maintained the same policy for several decades, build new but neglect the existing. This continued neglect is now costing the residents of Somerset County financially and in their safety.
The county has paid for study after study to give the appearance of acting, but many of those projects are shelved or ignored and then need to be repeated. These projects are vital repairs and improvements to make areas safer and prevent the infrastructure from failing. The projects that do move forward are photo opportunities for the freeholders to show a shovel in the ground or a ribbon cutting ceremony, but then get added to the growing list of neglected infrastructure. Projects have sat unusable for longer than the lifespan of the materials used and not helped the impacted communities. Non-transportation projects are unnecessarily being delayed by the county, costing the tax payers and putting an aging infrastructure at risk of failure.
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