With shovels in hand near the southbound on-ramp near Exit 14, officials broke ground Wednesday morning on a project to widen a stretch of Interstate 95 that Gov. Dannel P. Malloy called one of the state's worst bottlenecks.
Duff, the vice chairman of the General Assembly's Transportation Committee, is described by Malloy as a "tireless" and "dogged" advocate of the project.
The Exit 14 southbound ramp will be widened to three lanes, with three highway overpass bridges replaced at Cedar Street and Taylor and Fairfield avenues to accommodate the wider highway, the plans state.
State Department of Transportation officials say preliminary work has had minimal impacts to traffic and construction requiring lane closures will begin immediately.
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