Highway-closing accidents are nothing new on the I-95 corridor between Greenwich and New Haven, a 48-mile stretch of interstate built in the late 1950s and designed to handle less than half of today’s daily volume of about 150,000 vehicles. The 2023 INRIX Global Traffic Scorecard ranked the southbound portion of the Stamford urban area – defined as the section between Westport and Greenwich – as the worst in the U.S. for time lost due to congestion in both directions in the Stamford area was ranked 13th worst. “The average distance traveled on I-95 in Connecticut is just 11 miles,” Cameron said. “It’s an interstate highway, not a local shortcut. If we had tolls, that ‘shortcut’ would come at a modest cost and would persuade people to take Route 1, meaning less traffic on I-95 for those paying tolls.” The Connecticut Crash Data Repository shows a steady drumbeat of accidents over the years along I-95 between Greenwich and New Haven, the highest numbers in the state.
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