Groton resident George Abad, who works the night shift in the emergency room of Lawrence + Memorial Hospital in New London, drives over the Gold Star Memorial Bridge multiple times a day. He drove the new crossover lanes driving north on Sunday and the existing northbound bridge on Monday. He thought the crews did a really good job, though there could be more signage on the northbound bridge, but he thinks that is coming. “I think they did a great job with all the lanes, but we just have to remember to go slow,” Abad said. “We have to go slow for a mile and a half for the next four years, and it’ll work out.” Abad was among the residents on Monday getting used to a new traffic crossover on the bridge, which will be in place for four years. The $900 million repair project for the northbound span includes installing a new deck, repairing concrete and strengthening steel. The “crossover” of two northbound lanes onto a section of the southbound bridge — separated by a barrier from the regular southbound lanes — was installed overnight Saturday. Exit 86 is accessible through the crossover. The existing northbound bridge was reduced to two lanes, with the right lane as an Exit 85 only lane.

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