The Connecticut Department of Transportation says the Interstate 84 exit won’t reopen until late July. The CTDOT says “bridge rehabilitation activities” will be performed on Bridge No. 02380, at I-84 eastbound, Exit 56 in East Hartford. The project is scheduled to start on Tuesday, May 27, 2025, and will not be completed until Sunday, July 27, 2025, according to the agency. The work was awarded to Rotha Contracting Company, Inc. at a cost of $5.4 million in 2022, and is scheduled to be completed on July 2, 2026, according to DOT. There are about 545 active capital projects planned for this year on state highways, bridges and roads. Two hundred of the projects are in the planning phase and 171 are under construction. “It’s going to be a busy construction season,” state Department of Transportation Communications Director Josh Morgan has said. “We have a lot of major projects that are in the middle of the process and years two, three and four is when that really picks up.”
Why that exit on Interstate 84 is closing. And for how long amid summer traffic.