[JayCT]

Originally Posted by Pike

I tend to disagree
a bridge to LI

1) If made to have LIMITED access might not promote traffic or harm the environment
2) If having a well priced toll reflecting it being a bypass not commuter route could help pay for itself
3) Could bring in revenue to CT with people going to Mystic/Foxwoods/Mohegan
4) This could take trucks and traffic going from BOS/Cape Cod in the summer and Ski areas in winter OFF of I-95....which would HELP reduce traffic
-I 95 was meant to be a local route with all the exits...it can't really be expanded to what it needs to be...why not build a bridge to divert some of the traffic?
5) This traffic would LI residents AND NYC residents...additionally if a southern bypass connecting LI to SI/NJ was built you'd have a true bypass
-Why not use the stimulus cash and infrastructure emphasis?

To answer you:

1) How do you build a major structure over or through a major body of water without impacting it? Limited access or not, it WILL have a significant impact on the environment.

2) Well priced means cheaper and cheaper means less revenue. Less revenue means less money to pay for the thing and that is why it is not economically not feasible.

3) Yes it could bring more people to Connecticut but there are a lot of people who really do not want that.

4) Yes it could reduce some traffic on sections of I-95 but that is not a big enough incentive to get people and the politicians to support this.

5) There is a southern bypass route but it already has a lot of traffic. And where do you think the stimulus cash comes from? It comes from taxpayers and there are lot more important things to spend money on than a bridge/tunnel to LI.

Sorry but this is not really a viable project. Maybe years from now but I do not think it is likely in my lifetime. JMHO, Jay

[NJPM]

The argument against building a bridge/tunnel from CT to LI (apart from its certain appalling cost) is the same as the argument against building any big new highway. Traffic engineers call it induced demand, otherwise known as "if you build it, they will come." At first, a new highway is marvelously uncongested, so of course developers build houses all along it because access is so easy, and pretty soon it's not so uncongested any more. Especially after all the retail shows up, to service all the people who live in the new developments. And you're right back where you started, with another congested highway. Plus more sprawl.

[J double R]

taking the ferry was my choice of transportation if i had to go, and given my lack of real need to go there frequently, it sufficed.

[jjbradleynyc]

A bridge across Long Island might be convenient for some, but an eyesore and an environmental disaster for many.
Too much promotion of more driving, as one person already said. Also, who has the "big need" to go to Long Island? Especially from the proposed route from New Haven to Long Island?
Don't get me wrong, it would be used, but the uses do NOT outweigh the cons for the project. I think it would be a wasteful mess.

[kidyankee764]

I agree with the poster who said with the bridge comes more sprawl. I don't think south central CT would enjoy that.