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The I-91 Southbound merge with I-95 Southbound has recently been christened the worst bottleneck in the state by a reputable authority, and for good reason. I-91 traffic is forced to merge from 2 lanes to 1 in order to enter I-95. A one lane connecting ramp between 2 major interstate highways! What were they thinking!!! On a bad day, the traffic gets backed up all the way to the North Haven town line from Downtown New Haven. This definitely needs to be addressed before CT finds itself on another embarrassing list.
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ConnDOT Watch (Guest)
This project is already being designed and constructed by ConnDOT - see i95newhaven.com. I'm closing the ticket because I doubt that anything can be done to "speed up" that process. The intersection can't be fixed until the Q-bridge is replaced - that bridge alone is costing the taxpayers $800 million.
Though the bottleneck is frustrating, I would submit that significantly more embarrassing than being on a "bottleneck list" is what we'll feel like when we have to explain to our children that we spent $2 billion to fix a highway interchange in the center of New Haven at a time when automobile use was declining and when the country was going into debt it would never recover from.
The fact is we use 50 times more energy per capita than other countries. That is going to change. Smarter policy for us right now would be to immediately cancel all highway construction projects nationwide, and focus on the development of smarter transportation and land use policies, before we all become hopelessly bankrupt.
ConnDOT Watch (Guest)