Updated Scheduled For 24Hour Weekend Closures on Route 130 Fairfield Avenue in Bridgeport

CONNECTICUT DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION

NEWS RELEASE

2800 BERLIN TURNPIKE P.O. BOX 317546

NEWINGTON CONNECTICUT, 06131-7546

FOR RELEASE: July 23, 2014

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Updated Scheduled For 24-Hour Weekend Closures on Route 130 (Fairfield Avenue) in Bridgeport

The Connecticut Department of Transportation is announcing that the closure schedule for Route 130, Fairfield Avenue, from Commerce Drive to Railroad Avenue eastbound has been revised. The current schedule is to close Route 130 on the weekend of August 1-3 and August 8-11, 2014.

The road closure is required to complete the drainage prior to the final lowering of Fairfield Avenue.

DETOUR INFO- Route 130 will be closed from 9 p.m. Friday to 6 a.m. Monday on weekends of 8/1-8/3/14 and 8/8/-8/11/14.

Signs will be in place to direct traffic around the closure. Detour routes are:

- Cars will use Pine Street, Bostwick Avenue and State Street.

- Truck traffic will use Pine Street, Wordin Avenue and State Street.

A temporary sidewalk will be in place for pedestrian access.

The work is part of a project to overhaul the overhead Catenary wire system and replace five bridges on the New Haven Rail Line between Bridgeport and Fairfield. The contract was awarded to Ducci Electrical Contractors of Torrington, CT, in April 2007 and the revised schedule has the project completing in August 2014.