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The ultimate goal is to connect that route to New Haven, and then seek designation as part of the Bicycle Route 1A that would spoke off of a bike route that approximates U.S. The bike-friendly corridor is meant to link shoreline towns together with a route that comes as close to the shoreline as possible, to allow cyclists to experience the beauty and communities along it, including Bluff Point, Harkness Park, Mystic and Noank, Kent said. “The challenge is to convince the DOT at an engineering level that this is bigger than the half-mile stretch of road,” Kent said. The southbound lanes would split into the existing three-lane configuration at the intersection with Benham Street, cutting out the shoulder.īrian Kent, a landscape architect and vice chair of the Connecticut Bicycle and Pedestrian Advisory Board, said the project should include marked bike lanes on each shoulder, with a buffer strip between the driving lanes and shoulder. The reconfigured road would have one 12-foot wide driving lane in each direction, with shoulders about six feet wide. Route 349, including that section of Eastern Point Road, is included in a plan for an “Eastern Shoreline Path” that would be a bike-friendly corridor from the Rhode Island state line in Pawcatuck to the Baldwin Bridge over the Connecticut River, which was proposed in a regional bike and pedestrian plan the Southeastern Connecticut Council of Governments composed last year. The Connecticut Department of Transportation is proposing reconfiguring Eastern Point Road between Benham Road and Chester Street to have two lanes and wider shoulders. Electric Boat is opposed to the project because it worries reconfigured lanes could disrupt its construction. That section of road serves the South Yard of the Electric Boat campus, where the company is ramping up for major submarine construction programs that are expected to create an additional 5,000 jobs at the Groton campus between 20. The proposal from CTDOT would reconfigure the lanes on Eastern Point Road between its intersections with Benham Road to Chester Street, eliminating one southbound driving lane so that there would be one lane in either direction, with wider shoulders. GROTON - A state proposal to reconfigure lanes on a road near Electric Boat’s Groton campus could be a key piece of a proposed bike-friendly corridor along the shoreline from Rhode Island to the Connecticut River, but the Connecticut Department of Transportation says there isn’t room on the road for traditional bike lanes.