Conn Tpke: Moses Wheeler Bridge Replacement

[shadyjay]

ConnDOT has a new web site for the replacement of the Moses Wheeler Bridge on I-95 between Stratford and Milford....

http://www.moseswheelerbridge.com/

Looks like the present amount of lanes will be maintained with a brand new bridge, but with full width shoulders. 

Completion?  2017... or two years after the "Q" Bridge project.   


Does anyone think its a little ridiculous to not be adding an additional lane in each direction?  If anything, just for "operational" (Exit Only) purposes, because of course 1/4-1/2 mile on either side of the bridge, there's an entrance or an exit ramp!

[iwishiwascanadian]

With I-95 in New Haven and Fairfield Counties, ConnDOT should add capacity where it can when it can.  It makes no since to me why they would spend all this money on a bridge, that will be eventually packed like the rest of 95 when they had the option of adding additional lanes.   

[Duke87]

The classic exit-only right lanes over the bridge setup wouldn't entirely work in this case, as exit 33, the next interchange south of the bridge, is NB off/SB on.

Still, with four full-width shoulders, there will be plenty of room to fit 8 lanes of traffic on the new bridge should any widening in that area ever occur.

[froggie]

Not under standard guidelines.  6 lanes might be doable, but FHWA will want ConnDOT to keep at least one full shoulder in each direction on the bridge.

[Mergingtraffic]

It seems like it's kinda silly not do at least provide provisions for an extra lane.  I mean, they are taking a loooong time to build it.

I have a feeling if this were Texas or even MA, there would at least provisions for it.
Actually if this were TX, I-95 would be 10-lanes!