I just remember the g9verner saying something about a complete rehab. 5 years on the North section, 5 years on the South section. As someone who traverses the bridge daily, it's been 6 years now with very little progress made. I was just curious. Round and round the government goes...lol

No no you mis read. Im getting off an exit to the RIGHT lane. Because the exit lane is closing soon.

Whoa goodluck

Another commenter said they automatically put holds on everyone’s account…what a dumb fucking system. It’s like guilty until proven innocent.

I agree, if you doing 60 in the left lane and your exit isnt within the next half mile in the same lane. You are a dickhead. 100% AGREE

Meant to say Gold Star. There's a Toll gate Road in Groton. It was a slip. That's my bad. That one's on me

That’s insane

65-70 and youre moving over to yhe right lane? Guy if youre going that slow you should be staying in the right lane from the beginning. Lol

This is a big part of the answer. Maintaining the Thames River with a navigable channel for submarines is the number one priority, as the Groton Sub Base is the single most important sub base in the Navy’s arsenal. That factor throws a major wrench into building a new bridge.

Furious at the dickheads doing 60 in the left lane, yeah, causing others to have to swerve around in the middle and right lanes to pass them.

I’ll have sympathy for slow drivers complaining on here when I consistently see them cede the left lane for its intended purpose: passing. But that’ll never happen

Thanks! Yeah there’s definitely a need for more welders.

The Baldwin bridge didn’t have adequate capacity so it was decided to build new. Q bridge also didn’t have adequate capacity and had giant holes in the footings so rehab wasn’t an option. Goldstar bridge has the capacity so they chose the cheaper option to rehab it.

I was gonna say my company is looking for skilled people. Especially those skills. Good work landing new gig!!

I take the merge as soon as i can. Also this the place that has an accident almost everyday. Ive been driving for decades, never had a fender bender. These people maybe even you are the problem. People here drive like they are on meth and it shows.

10-20 feet isn't even one car length. And what are they driving that can speed up that quick? Also,again, why are you waiting that late to merge?!?!?!?!? It's okay to be in denial that you're actually the problem. But please learn from this.

The executives are excessively compensated... that's one problem right there. Please tell me how paying high salaries to retain "top talent" has a positive effect to the consumer? Why was it deregulated?

Also... why is it that a few years back the delivery portion of the bill was about 25% but now that we can shop around more it's 50% (substantially reducing the benefit of being able to shop around for generation)

I can’t speak for federal DOT, but I’m sure alternatives were studied and this was deemed the best solution. Could be sub base/coast guard related, could have just been prohibitively expensive. Could have been too difficult to work around all the rail infrastructure surrounding the bridge

Work has been underway on the GSB for as long as I can remember and will likely be still underway long after we have all shuffled off this mortal coil.

Im far ahead of them 10-20feet going about 65-70mph. They speed up to 80-90 trying to beat my merge. ITS INSANE to think you are going to win that. I take the merger and slow down on their ass. They can fuck off and go to another lane.

Yup! That’s what I do! Welder/metal fabricator. I had an offer the week after I was let go. Starting a new job tomorrow.

I feel a little better after seeing all these responses lol. Thank you

A blinker doesn't give you the right of way. Also if you're waiting that long to get over for your exit then you need to learn to plan ahead. Lastly 10-20 feet is not a reasonable amount of distance to merge infront of a car, you're cutting people off which is why the don't let you merge.

Manufacturing sector hiring like crazy. Look into it.

Fast and furious

FnF in my state?