City Link will build upon the work of the Rt 2 Extension to I-91 by completing the relocation of the I-84 and I-91 to the north, realigning and lowering I-84 through Hartford, and repurposing the Bulkeley Bridge for local road traffic. The implementation of these projects would address structural, operational, and safety needs, reduce the number of ramps in the Study Core, and improve connectivity between neighborhoods and green spaces/parks. Lowering the highway would link neighborhoods currently severed by the highway and create additional developable land while improving rail and bus services that share the corridor.
Lowering Interstate 84 (1-84) through Hartford would help foster stronger community connections over the interstate and improve passenger rail service by realigning the tracks and constructing a new, modern train station between Asylum Hill and Downtown Hartford. This would allow for increased train speed and frequency and would create convenient transfer point for all transit modes including CTfastrak, CTtransit. And local and express bus service.
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