I95 detours3/31/2023 ![]() ![]() Most pick-up trucks were allowed to pass, but most vacation trailers were sent back. Larger vehicles were ordered to make a U-turn on the highway and return to Exit 21. Those under nine and a half feet in height were allowed to continue. Using a crane, it hoisted out of the ground a sign that read, ''All Commercial Vehicles Must Use Exit 21.''Ībout three miles away at the first toll booth inside Connecticut, a dozen state police cars with red lights blinking were parked in the middle of the highway and about 25 uniformed troopers waved trucks and buses to the side.Įach vehicle was measured. Shortly before noon, a New York State highway repair crew arrived at Exit 21. Larocca announced that New York had ''studied the situation carefully'' and determined that truck traffic ''can be more effectively dispersed through routes in Connecticut than through Port Chester alone.'' Three days later, the two states agreed that northbound cars could proceed on the Interstate into Connecticut and detour through Greenwich, but that trucks would continue to travel through Port Chester or take a more circuitous route on other Interstate highways. All traffic was diverted through Port Chester onto Route 1 via Exit 21. On June 28, a 100-foot section of bridge collapsed on I-95 in Connecticut, between Exits 4 and 5 for Greenwich, hurling four vehicles into the Mianus River and killing three people. ''But given the situation, there's not much they can do.'' Three Killed in Collapse ''I'm sweating to death on this road,'' he said. Tony Morello, one of the truck drivers who was turned around at the Connecticut toll plaza and had to continue on through Port Chester on the detour route, stopped at a traffic light in Port Chester. He said Connecticut hoped to have the temporary ramps in service in ''approximately a week.'' Keish said work was expected to begin today on a pair of temporary ramps that would take trucks off I-95 in Connecticut and end the need for the detour through Port Chester. ''Nobody's insensitive or unaware of the problems.'' ''We've been attempting to do whatever we can do within the time elapsed,'' he said. Keish, a spokesman for the Department of Transportation in Connecticut. ''We've got a major problem here with one of America's mosttraveled highways,'' said William E. James Larocca, the New York State Commissioner of Transportation, said, ''It is absolutely unconscionable that all truck traffic should be handled in New York.'' A short time earlier, he had issued an order permitting commercial vehicles to continue into Connecticut on I-95 rather than detouring through Port Chester. ![]() They also say Greenwich has suffered as a result of traffic being rerouted past the damaged bridge. But they say they are working as fast as they can to develop a route past the damaged bridge that will not include Port Chester. ![]() New York State officials say that the congestion of Port Chester's narrow streets by the trucks has hurt business in the village, burdened the local police and polluted the air.Ĭonnecticut officials say they recognize the problems that have been imposed on Port Chester. At noon, the New York authorities began permitting truck traffic to flow into Connecticut on the highway, after the trucks had been diverted through this village in Westchester County near the state line for 12 days because of the collapse of part of the Mianus River bridge in Greenwich, Conn.īut as the trucks approached the first toll plaza in Connecticut, near Greenwich, the Connecticut state police there forced them to turn back and continue to use the detour through Port Chester. New York fired a salvo of trucks at Connecticut today as the battle of Interstate 95 heated up. ![]()
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