could be close to a two hour
delay. Guys, back to you. A lot
of patience needed. Thanks,
Anthony. Our team coverage
continues tonight with NBC
Connecticut political reporter Mike Savino. He’s been out
talking to people about those
traffic impacts. He joins us
live now from Waterbury. What
are they telling you, Mike?
Well, Mike, it really depends on
where you are. Even here. You
can start to see, particularly
on the eastbound side. It’s
slowing down a little bit with
rush hour. You can. This is kind
of a situation where you feel
the extra traffic. But we’ve
been driving down I-84 between
here in New York and a lot of
the afternoon things were fine.
It wasn’t until you hit one of
these bottlenecks that you
started to realize the extra
traffic. It’s on the local
roadways where you’re really
getting backed up for right now,
and maybe for a little bit of
the foreseeable future. There
can be a lot of trucks trying to
find a way around this
bottleneck. Like truckers and
motorists are left finding their
way through western Connecticut
with a major thoroughfare, I-95 five, being shut down in Norwalk
until at least Monday. The state
urging truckers to take this
detour up I 684 to 84. Some truckers didn’t get the memo and
ran into issues in Norwalk, even
damaging local bridges. The out
of state may not be as aware of
what’s going on up here. They
may not have as advanced GPS.
Jacob East saw signs as he
entered New York and followed
the detour. He hopes it won’t
add too much time. As of midday,
he said he only experienced a
little extra traffic. 684 going
to 84. That’s backed up a little
bit. It was mostly smooth
sailing on I-84, unless you hit
a normal slowdown. Then you
suddenly noticed all the extra
traffic like we did here in
Newtown. Many drivers decided to
try and get back onto I-95 as
soon as possible. Came up all
the way up to New York Thruway and then across the 84. Just
looking for the best way to get
back over to over to 95 now. But
that’s created traffic jams on
local roads like on Stony Hill
Road in Bethel. Isaac LaBarbera
said it took much longer than normal to get to his family’s
royal fish and chips. The
traffic was driving away
business. They’re looking
forward to a lunch time. Come
and get food at Royal Fish and
Chips, right? And they only have 30 minutes, but it’s taking them
40 minutes to get here. And we
were when we were in Bethel, we
saw people even turning around