Sure, traffic is bad now.
But that’s not exactly a new complaint.
Consider this photo from nearly a century ago.
A line of cars heads down the Post Road — or, as it was called then, State Street — past Westport Bank & Trust (now Patagonia) and the YMCA (now Anthropologie).
Only a couple of parking spots were free by the Y. All were taken on the other side of the street.
A few years later, this was the scene looking the other way.
Sure, it looks like there is not much traffic. But all those cars on the left, in front of Town Hall (now Don Memo) were parked. There must not have been a lot of room to pass by.
And those were some seriously big vehicles.
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50 Years Ago This Week:
The Westport News reported that 1st Selectman (as she was called) Jacqueline Heneage rode her bike to work. She thought “at this time of the energy crisis” that she could set an example.
It was not a far ride. Heneage lived on Compo Road South, close to the Post Road.
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