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Driving on an Area Highway This Week? Flying for the Holidays? Here’s What May Delay You

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You may find yourself delayed by closed lanes at certain stretches of Interstate 95 this week, and if you’re flying from LaGuardia airport for the holiday, you may find your airline is at a different terminal. Here’s what you should know:
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Stamford & Darien — Interstate 5 — Monday and Tuesday

As Darienite.com reported on Friday, a project in Stamford between Exits 8 and 9 will cause lane closures on both the northbound- and southbound-traffic sides of the highway, but the state Department of Transportation is now saying that work will close lanes anywhere from Exit 8 in Stamford to Exit 10 in Darien in connection with bridge maintenance and inspections. Closures can be expected anywhere from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. on both Monday and Tuesday, Dec. 4 and 5, the state Department of Transportation says. Darien — Interstate 95 — Wednesday and Thursday

On Wednesday and Thursday, Dec.

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ConnDOT Plans to Have Merritt Parkway Signs Replaced in 2018

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The Connecticut Department of Transportation is developing plans to replace the highway signs and their support structures on a 38.3-mile stretch of the Merritt Parkway from the Connecticut/New York border in Greenwich to the Stratford/Milford town line. ______________

— an announcement from the Connecticut Department of Transportation

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“This project is necessary because of the age, condition and structural integrity of these signs and their support systems– some of which have little remaining reflectivity and are literally falling apart after 20 years along the roadway,” said ConnDOT Commissioner James P. Redeker. “This creates a safety issue, not to mention an inconvenience and distraction for motorists. As part of our ongoing asset management program, we are constantly evaluating the condition of all of our highways, bridges and ancillary structures. This project is a direct result of those efforts.”

Replacement of the highway signing will consist of removing and replacing existing overhead, side-mounted, post-mounted, and variable message signs (including one in Orange on the Wilbur Cross parkway) using some of the existing sign supports, as well as many new support structures.

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Merritt Pkwy Project to Close Ramps Wednesday, April 26, Greenwich to New Canaan

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The Connecticut Department of Transportation is announcing that construction will be resuming on Route 15 (Merritt Parkway) in Stamford and New Canaan from the Greenwich town line just north of Exit 31, North Street, to the vicinity of Exit 37, Route 124 (South Avenue) beginning on Monday, April 17, 2017. 

The project consists of 6.5 miles of roadway resurfacing, safety improvements, and landscaping enhancements.  The work also includes rehabilitation of five historic bridges over Route 15. ____________

— an announcement from the Connecticut Department of Transportation

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Department of Transportation Project No. 0135-0270 was awarded to O&G Industries at a cost of $53,031,742.62 on July 23. 2013 and is scheduled to be completed by July, 2017. LANE CLOSURE AND DETOUR INFO

The following nighttime periodic closures of the northbound and southbound on/off ramps at Exits 34, 35, 36, and 37 on or about Wednesday, April 26 for joint sealing in the City of Stamford and Town of New Canaan will be required.

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Noroton Heights Station Platform Replacement Project: More on Which Parts Will Be Done When & Parking Impact

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Darien Public Works Director Ed Gentile gave out more details Monday night on what parts of the Noroton Heights Railroad Station platform-replacement project will be done at what times and how various elements of the plan would affect parking. Gentile added to information already released on the project by the Connecticut Department of Transportation (ConnDOT), which is financing the project and which owns the station. Darien town government maintains the station and regulates the parking with the state’s permission. These were the points Gentile made:

ConnDOT had originally planned to replace the current platforms with concrete platforms created off-site and trucked to the station. Instead, the department will now have the contractor pour the concrete in place.

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Parking Noroton Heights Station 03-28-17

Town Officials Consider Parking Situation at Noroton Heights Station as Platform Project Starts

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With the passenger platform replacement project now started at the Noroton Heights Railroad Station, town officials have taken some steps to try to minimize the parking spaces that commuters can’t use during construction, and if that’s not enough, they’ve identified some other options. The project to replace all the concrete platforms on either side of the tracks has begun, with the western end of the south platform, roughly half of it, already marked off with yellow tape and now unusable for passengers. Work on that quarter of the platforms was expected to continue to about mid-summer, ConnDOT said during the initial planning for the project last year. A number of parking spaces up against the platform are already out of commission. At Monday’s Board of Selectmen meeting, members of the board said they were concerned about commuters losing spaces and wanted to know if the town could help with that.

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Noroton Heights Train Station Platform Replacement Project Begins Monday

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An 18-month-long demolition and reconstruction of the concrete platforms at Noroton Heights Railroad Station is scheduled to begin Monday, with work starting on the western end of the south platform (nearest Hollow Tree Ridge Road).  

The state Department of Transportation announced the beginning of construction with this news release on March 21:

The Connecticut Department of Transportation is announcing the replacement of the Noroton Heights Railroad Station Platforms in Darien starting on March 27, 2017.  

The project consists of the replacement of platforms along Track 3 (New York Bound) and Track 4 (New Haven Bound) including guardrails/hand rails, bearings, an eastbound platform shelter, illumination upgrades, and minor appurtenances. The Notice to Proceed was Nov. 22, 2016 and the demolition segment of Stage 1 of the project is scheduled to begin on March 27, 2017 with Stages 2 through 4 to follow subsequently.  The project completion date is Nov.

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State to Repave Rt 1 in Darien This Summer: You Won’t Believe What They’re Considering

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The state Department of Transportation has informed town officials it plans to pave the Post Road through Darien this summer, Darien Police Capt. Donald Anderson told the Police Commission on Wednesday — and he passed on an unusual request. Officials from the department commonly known as “ConnDOT” told town officials that they’re aware of a traffic study about Route 1 done by the now-defunct Southwestern Regional Planning Agency (which has been replaced with the Western Council of Governments,commonly known as “WestCOG”). That traffic study suggested replacing one of the two lanes for traffic going in each direction with just one lane apiece, and using the space created to paint in turning lanes on the road and such amenities as bicycle lanes. The state wants to know if the town thinks that’s a good idea, in whole or, if in part, where the single lanes might work. “They reached out to me, asking if the Legal Traffic Authority [which is the Police Commission in Darien] would be looking to implement any or all of the SWRPA recommendations as far as the roadway markings on U.S. 1,” Anderson told the commission.