Transportation
Can a Beehive-Inspired Overpass Unite a City?
New Britain, Connecticut, is split by a highway overpass—which is also the city's main street. Will a high-design walkway bridge deep divisions?
New Britain, Connecticut, seems like an idyllic place. Tucked away in the southernmost part of the Hartford-Springfield corridor, the city is a hardware manufacturing center with a large Polish population and a small, beloved American art museum.
New Britain takes a lot of pride in its favorite son, Elihu Burritt. A metalworker who advocated for peace, abolition, and temperance as a diplomat for President Abraham Lincoln's administration, the "Learned Blacksmith" coined the Latin phrase that serves as the town slogan: Industria implet alveare et mele fruitur ("Industry fills the hive and enjoys the honey").