“It is truly amazing that in less than 80 hours from that fiery crash Thursday that shut down traffic in both directions, the highway again is fully open,” Governor Lamont said in part in a statement.
Engineers have also been working to develop preliminary replacement plans for the Fairfield Avenue Bridge. The designs are expected to be completed within the next two weeks with the replacement expected to take about a year.
"Unfortunately, there is such a backlog on steel and materials. We're going to be, you know, up to a year before that bridge can get replaced," said Morgan.
We were traveling to Norwalk on Saturday afternoon. In order to avoid the traffic jam at Exit 14, where the traffic was being rerouted, we took the alternate route , CT-15 - a/k/a The Merritt Parkway. It got bogged down with traffic as people tried to avoid I-95, just as we were doing. I exited before my preferred exit to Norwalk through Darien, and snaked around, returning to I-95 two exits before where I would normally exit. Guess what? NO TRAFFIC! Without announcing this opening of the road eastbound, it was opened. All of us listening to sundry news stations on radio and TV were packed onto CT-15. Trucks to New England that could take I-684 north to Westchester County to access I-84 East into Connecticut, did so. So, information was delayed and I-95 was virtually empty.
ReplyDeleteOh wow, the Merritt was in the news as just jammed up!
DeleteAt least you got on the empty interstate!