Erie County has more roads of its own than almost any county, a situation that many would like to resolve.
The county apparently acquired many roads through side deals long ago by the town supervisors who dominated the old Board of Supervisors. In those days, the county might also have had more money for maintenance than the towns did.
Today, many of those roads are essentially residential streets. Public Works Commissioner John Loffredo says there may 200 miles of such roads.
Marilla Supervisor Earl Gingerich, Jr., says his town might take back some roads.
"It depends on which roads they were. It would have to be roads before I would even consider it that are only within the town, that don't cross town lines and that were up to 'A' condition and then we would consider taking over, you know, depending on the agreement the county wanted to make with us," Gingerich said.
Loffredo says the county would be interested, especially in those that are really only in one town. That would mean the county would have to come up with some stiff repair cash to turn over a re-built road to a town.
