Detours galore at Long Wharf

By Ed Stannard, Register Metro Editor

If you’re heading home from Brazi’s or “The Glass Menagerie,” make sure you know how to get out of Long Wharf. With all the work on Interstate 95 and its junction with Route 34 and Interstate 91, detours are growing as common as taco trucks.

Here’s a rundown:

# Brewery Street between Sargent Drive and Water Street is being closed week nights from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m., and will be for the next six months, according to the state Department of Transportation. The on-ramp from Brewery Street to Route 34 also will be closed during those hours.

Brewery Street is being closed so that the Route 34 overpass can be demolished. Route 34 will be widened to include a merge from the new “flyover” bridge from Interstate 95 northbound.

Drivers will be directed around the work site via Water Street, Long Wharf Drive, Canal Dock Road and Sargent Drive, the DOT said.

# Starting Monday, a section of Hamilton Street between Water Street and Long Wharf Drive will be closed for about eight weeks. The DOT will be doing pile-driving in the area for the approach to the new Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge.

The detour is simple: Stay on Water Street or Long Wharf Drive; Hamilton Street there is basically a short-cut anyway.

# At the western end of Long Wharf, Long Wharf Drive Extension under I-95 will be closed week nights from 10 p.m. to 5 a.m. from June 8 to 29, the DOT said.

The road between Long Wharf and Sargent drives will be closed so that the overpass can be widened. The wider roadway is necessary because Exit 46 will be moved closer to Long Wharf Drive Extension.

The closure will mean drivers have to cross under I-95 at Canal Dock Road, near Ikea.

Tomlinson Bridge closed for maintenance

NEW HAVEN — The Tomlinson Bridge will be closed for part of the day today through Thursday.
The bridge, which carries Forbes Avenue (Route 1) over the mouth of the Quinnipiac River, will undergo routine inspection from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m., according to the state Department of Transportation. Forbes Avenue will be closed between East and Stiles streets during those times.
A detour will be put in place during the inspection. The schedule could be modified or extended depending on weather or other unforeseen reason, the DOT said.