So based on the article, “New London seeks $25 million for garage expansion,” (April 13), it is starting to become clearer as to why the proposed United States Coast Guard Museum is to be shoehorned at additional cost onto a flood plain. It is all about the parking garage and who benefits from that financially. At one of the early PR meetings, I raised the question to Mr. Redd as to how the parking could be accommodated in the present structure as there were times during the year that it was already at capacity. He answered that everything had been taken into account and the garage was up to the task.

Well apparently, it is not as they now need another $20,700,000 to make it so. This is after freeing up 600 spaces that EB used to rent. There has to be a reason for ignoring Fort Trumbull, a location with unlimited parking, no need for a $20,000,000 pedestrian bridge or a new pier for the Eagle. So, to recap what both the owner of the parking structure and the Cross Sound Ferry people gain is $40,700,000 taxpayer dollars to refurbish and expand a parking garage and a pedestrian bridge.

Randy Terwilliger

New London