The on/off ramp at Miller Street will be closed and access to Middletown via Portland St. will be opened. Planning is completed, funding has been acquired, and construction is scheduled to begin in Spring 2024.
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Public Documents:
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Route 9 Project DOT Website
Here is a link to the current DOT website on Route 9. It contains the project’s history, a summary of alternative plans, and updates on the project: https://portal.ct.gov/DOT/Projects/0082-0318-Route-9-Middletown-Home
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Return to the Riverfront Master Plan
The City of Middletown published the ambitious “Return to the Riverbend” master plan in spring 2022. The plan includes a series of parks along the riverfront and details ways to get involved. This masterplan offers the most comprehensive of the City’s vision for how Rt. 9 could look as it runs past Middletown.
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Rt. 9 Crash Data
The Connecticut Crash Data Repository, compiled by UCONN (https://www.ctcrash.uconn.edu) provides regularly updated data on crash reports across the state. We were able to use this resource to investigate the frequency of Route 9 crashes in Middletown as well as the types of crashes that occur on Route 9. This will provide some limited insight into…
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Rt. 9 & 17: Noise Analysis Report (2021)
CT DOT commissioned a study in 2019 to analyze the noise impact of a proposed new Route 9 & Route 17 interchange. The study was conducted in this area:
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DOT Map of Alternative 11 from 2018
To remove the traffic signal on Route 9 at the Washington Street interchange (Old Exit 15), a new off-ramp from Route 9 northbound is proposed to provide access to River Road, approx. 3,500 ft south of Washington Street. Access to Washington Street is proposed to be removed from Route 9. The Washington Street interchange will…
Additional Miller/Bridge Material:
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Middletown Rt. 9: History and Traffic Information
History overview Image of Connecticut’s Route 9 Route 9 was originally commissioned in 1932, and its path was taken from the old New England interstate (NE-10) which existed from 1922 to 1931. The planning for Route 9 began in 1931 and was going to be named Route 17, running through New Haven, Middletown, East Hartford,…
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Community Engagement Issues: Quotes from Stakeholders
“Minimiz[ing] impacts on the local roads [is] pretty much the lowest of the DoD priorities, but it’s the highest of our priorities.” – Howard Weissberg, Deputy Director Middletown Public Works “I think when they make these plans, they make plans with communities that they think have voice. They’ll reach out to the business community. They’ll…
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Environmental Issues: Quotes from Stakeholders
I want to see people oriented to trains or more efficient modes of travel rather than this personal, private ecosystem that people can just drive at violent speeds and to other people when they’re not careful. … Cars are not that good. We’re just promoting car culture by fixing the highways and not investing in…
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Safety/Traffic Issues: Quotes from Stakeholders
“Grade separation has massive safety implications. It reduces the ability for wrong-way entry, reduces conflict at intersections, reduces que-related crashes–somebody stopped at a stoplight, somebody’s not paying attention to them. You grade separate, you eliminate that.” – Howard Weissberg, Deputy Director Middletown Public Works “The Route 9 – Route 17 connector in a ramp is…
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Emissions Reductions Report
One key argument in favor of removing stoplights on Route 9 in Middletown is that it would reduce emissions in Middletown. Those who advance this theory argue that idling cars waiting at the stoplights use fuel and thus emit carbon dioxide and other pollutants into the air in Middletown. If those cars were able to…
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US DOT Report about Highway Removal Projects
A 2013 study hosted at the US Department of Transportation’s Repository and Open Access Portal that discusses the process and outcome of nine highway removal projects from around the world. Cases covered in the study include: San Francisco, Milwaukee, Chattanooga, Portland, New York City, Seoul, Toronto, Boston, Paris.
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Syracuse I-81: Highway Removal
The Interstate-81 Viaduct Project in Syracuse is one of the largest and most ambitious construction projects ever undertaken by New York State, in partnership with the federal government. Overseen by the State Department of Transportation, the project will create a Community Grid to reconnect downtown neighborhoods severed by the I-81 viaduct’s construction and correct an…
