Connecticut Department of Transportation - Thu August 31, 2023
Connecticut DOT Sets New Complete Streets Design Criteria to Improve Road Safety
A program has been created to ensure that every road and street project in Connecticut is built for everyone's safe use, under the guidance of the state's Department of Transportation (CTDOT). CTDOT has implemented its new Complete Streets design criteria to be incorporated into all projects....
Chuck MacDonald – CEG CORRESPONDENT - Thu June 01, 2023
Yonkers Contracting to Perform Bridge Slide On I-95 in Connecticut
Interstate 95 continues to be one of the most important transportation corridors in the country, extending from south Florida to northern Maine. Transportation planners and contractors in Connecticut are shoring up a section of this vital roadway in Norwalk....
Office of Gov. Ned Lamont & CEG - Thu April 27, 2023
Construction Gets Rolling On $148M I-95 East Lyme Project in Connecticut
Work is officially under way to improve Interstate 95 in East Lyme, Conn., following an April 26 groundbreaking ceremony attended by state and local officials and led by Gov. Ned Lamont. The Connecticut Department of Transportation (CTDOT) is reconfiguring Exit 74 on I-95 and replacing the bridge over Conn....
New Haven Independent - Thu April 27, 2023
Stretch of Historic Canal Trail in Downtown New Haven Set for Fall Completion
Concrete has been poured and hard-hatted construction workers are busy on site, but the final downtown stretch of New Haven, Conn.'s Farmington Canal Heritage Trail will not be complete until the fall, due to a mandatory break to accommodate summer camps in an adjacent park....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Thu April 20, 2023
Yonkers Contracting Leads $77M Project to Replace Stamford Parking Garage
Yonkers Contracting Company Inc. started work on the Connecticut Department of Transportation's (CTDOT) $77.2 million, design-build Stamford Station Parking Garage project in September 2021 to provide additional parking via a new facility and to improve services at the train station....
Connecticut Department of Transportation - Wed April 12, 2023
CTDOT Project to Boost Safety in Middletown by Reconfiguring Busy On-Ramp
The Connecticut Department of Transportation (CTDOT) has begun a project to reconfigure the Conn. Route 17 on-ramp that leads to state Route 9 northbound in Middletown to increase safety for drivers and pedestrians, while also improving traffic mobility....
Irwin Rapoport – CEG Correspondent - Thu March 23, 2023
American Bridge Rehabilitates East Haddam Swing Bridge
American Bridge Company (AB) is rehabilitating the East Haddam Swing Bridge, which carries Route 82 over the Connecticut River and links the towns of Haddam and East Haddam, for the Connecticut Department of Transportation (CTDOT)....
WTNH.com & WFSB-TV - Mon January 09, 2023
One Span of Connecticut's Gold Star Bridge Gets $158M From Feds for Needed Repairs
Connecticut's Gold Star Memorial Bridge, spanning the Thames River to link the cities of New London and Groton, is receiving a much needed $158 million from the Biden Administration to help in its rehabilitation....
The Day - Mon December 12, 2022
Connecticut DOT Studies How to Improve I-95 Between Branford, Rhode Island Border
Interstate 95 near the Raymond E. Baldwin Bridge, a link between the Connecticut towns of Old Saybrook and Old Lyme, carried an average of 40,000 vehicles a day in the late 1950's. By 2016, that number more than doubled to 97,000 vehicles daily, and is projected to increase to 126,000 vehicles in 2045....
Ken Liebeskind -CEG Correspondent - Thu December 01, 2022
Waterbury, Conn.,Transformation Continues With Mixmaster Project
The transformation of downtown Waterbury, Conn., is taking place with the rehabilitation of 10 bridges that connect Interstate 84 and Route 8. The Mixmaster, which was opened in 1968, features stacked bridges that the Connecticut Department of Transportation called "an engineering feat that addressed the area's challenging topography." But it also said, "The stacked bridges make both rehabilitation and replacement a complicated endeavor."While the Mixmaster has undergone multiple major renovations since the late 1960s, it is now being rehabilitated due to deteriorating concrete decks, corroded bearings and joints, section loss in its girders and cracking in critical, non-redundant structures....
