When Virginia Riggot rides the CT Transit bus to the Route 5 stop by the Wallingford Plaza, she says she leaves her daughter at home.
"It’s just too dangerous for anybody," Riggot said.
Right now there is too little space for bus riders to wait between a guardrail and oncoming traffic on the southbound side of the road.
"Just got to try to stay on the other side of it," Riggot said. "Hope that when the trains go by you don’t get hit by that either."
The guardrail recently went up to separate the street from Amtrak’s construction on the Hartford rail line, Connecticut Department of Transportation spokesperson Kevin Nursick said.
"There’s a buffer here, but on the other side forget it," said Erica Dzialo, who works across the street at Nardelli’s Grinder Shoppe.
"I will look out the window every once and a while and even I cringe because people are trying to get on and off, it’s just not safe, at all," she added.
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Both Dzialo and Riggot said they want the DOT to come up with a solution before something could go seriously wrong.
"Possibly finding another spot that’s not near the tracks, as they’re constructing the new tracks," Dzialo said. "Getting it further down where it’s safer for people to get on and off the bus."
Nursick said the DOT is aware of the situation and they are looking at alternative options where they could move this bus stop and potentially others along Route 5 in Wallingford.
"I don’t know where they could move, but they got to do something, because one of these days somebody is going to get hit and it’s going to be bad," Riggot said.
State Rep. Mary Mushinsky, who represents part of the town of Wallingord, told NBC Connecticut some constituents have raised concerns down the road at the bus stop near the Wal-Mart.
