Weed Road - I live on the far end of Weed Road across from Timber Lake and I work in Torrington and due to the condition of Weed Road and the pot hole I know avoid Weed Road completely. If this situation is not fixed come early spring I truly believe someone is going to be hurt and or killed... TIME FOR WEED ROAD TO HAVE A FACE LIFT....

It's called frost heave. It happens every year. Welcome to New England.

Oh! So sorry. It's supposed to be a country road, not a thoroughfare for "shortcutters" and speeders.

Torrington is loaded with frost heaves year round. There's really no sense in fixing it...it's going to keep happening year after year and just going to waste alot of money. Weed Rd is a country road, I'm not saying it doesent matter...I'm just saying it's not as traveled.

Haven't been on Weed Road for awhile but the people that live there deserve their road to be passable too. All the roads in this town are the worst that I have ever seen in 50 years. Not just a fr4ost heave or pothole but every crease in the road seem to be coming up in chunks of tar and there are holes everywhere. I think our new way of using this pre-treatment and/or the salt is a possible cause. And by saying that weed road is just a country road doesn't matter. It is a very much used road from Lichfield to Torrington to Goshen and even if someone besides a local were to go down that road it should be safe.

Weed Road is traveled just as much as any other road anyone person might live on. People that live on Weed Rd pay the same taxes that everyone else pays to live in the Torrington, CT so they should have the same treatment. Weed road is dangerous to drive on and something needs to be done and not dismissed as a country road.....

The lamest excuse I ever hear is "Welcome to New England" That is not an acceptable excuse. Frost heave? Well then, they need to do it better because IF and WHEN an accident does occur on a road that has gotten that bad, is that what you are going to say to the family of the injured or deceased...Welcome to New England, it was frost heave.

Is it a road on the map? Then fix it. Bottom line.

they should really fix that road and every road i always drive on that road an i always bottom out my car!!!!

I HAVE LIVED ON WEED ROAD FOR 45 YEARS AND NEVER HAS TRAVELING THIS ROAD DAILY BEEN AS DIFFICULT AS THIS YEAR..EVER SINCE THE FISH AND GAME IS NOT USED FOR POLITICAL FUNCTIONS,ETC. IN THE PAST FEW YEARS, THIS ROAD IS NOT MAINTAINED. CHECK OUT ROADS IN TORRINGTON WHERE POLITICANS LIVE AND SEE THE DIFFERENCE.

I also live on this road and I have never seen it this bad. Someone is going to get hurt. This road is caving in on the sides and they are way beyond calling them only pot holes. This is a serious danger to any one driving or walking on this road. Does it take someone to get hurt or killed on this road to get someones attention. To Torringtons Mayor, please take a ride you'll see what we mean. Thank you

I live on the goshen road side of weed road for 20 years and the road is the worst I have ever seen it. My car takes a beating every day and I can only go 10mph to stay on the road.

Just STFU and wait for the frost heaves to settle. Plus, with all of that new home construction up there over the past few years, the road has taken a beating. Just another case of new folks griping and developers wrecking a town's infrastructure with their overloaded trucks, etc. That's why Weed Road is hammered.

that's right.. frost heaves are temporary and the road WILL settle over time. we just got out of winter, use the road more often and it will fix itself

Well the the frost days are gone and this road is still a accident just waiting to happen. Will it take someone getting killed on this road to get the street departments attention. Come on, enough is enough. The road needs repair, complete repair not a little patching. The sides are caving in. Get a close look and take a walk on it. Why do they wait until some wrecks their car, or gets hurt. I see quite alot of people commenting on this problem, Where is the response or is this all for nothing?

Weed road is not a road, it's a wagon path, a trail, a random series of asphalt patches that seem to connect to each other, but at different heights. Where they don't connect there is a hole. Too bad that an elected town official doesn't live here, then it would be repaired in a heartbeat!

I have recently noticed painted markups on the pavement calling out various infrastructure elements along the roadway from Pumping Station Rd. to Highland Ave. Am I prematurely getting my hopes up that a resurfacing of Weed Rd. along this stretch can't be far behind?

Ever play the lava game when you were a kid? random parts of the ground were lava and you can't step there? That's like driving weed road and avoiding various chassis destroying obstacles. From best i can tell, sometime in the late 1800s, the folks up there didn't like visitors much, and set up a batch of deadly, indiana jones-esqe traps beneath the road. Years later, without bothering to look, it was paved over. Now, they're getting their revenge. They're back, and they're not happy... not happy at all...

The issue is still unresolved and the roads are still awful- the man who seemed to be the resident "expert" that thought it was just winter heaves was wrong-
I have lived here my entire life- the road is bad- it's that simple.

I wish the person who made the comment that it was "winter heaves" would drive down Weed Road with a cup of hot coffee between his legs and then say it was only "heaves".

It hasn't been winter in some time... When do the "Winter Heaves" thaw? Will it be soon??

Good news! It's almost winter! Now the heaves will return, and fill the holes!

This road is becoming a liability, City-officy-type folks. If there's an accident that leads to damage or injury, it's goign to cost the town big...

why was this closed? They have done NOTHING to actually repair this road.

The road near our house has been paved and it is a 100% improvement over the previous surface.
We are very grateful that it has was able to be paved before the winter.