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Bucks Hill Road over Interstate 84

New Haven County, Connecticut · rated Good in the 2025 National Bridge Inventory

United States Bridge Conditions2025 National Bridge Inventory, FHWACompiled August 20, 2026

Bucks Hill Road over Interstate 84 in New Haven County, Connecticut, is rated in good condition in the 2025 National Bridge Inventory (as of August 20, 2026).
Its lowest-rated component is the deck, rated 7 (good condition) on the 0-9 scale.
It was built in 1964 and reconstructed in 2020, making it 61 years old at the 2025 inventory.
It carries about 1,300 vehicles a day (traffic count year 2020).
Its listed owner is the state highway agency.
It is one of 275 of the 893 inventoried bridges in New Haven County rated good (30.8%); 33 (3.7%) are rated poor.
A good rating means every major component - deck, superstructure, substructure, or culvert - is rated 7 or higher on FHWA's 0-9 scale: no more than minor problems.

Component ratings


Structure	Continuous steel stringer or multi-beam girder
Length	about 253 ft
Location	.7 Mi West of Route 188
NBI structure number	01157
Condition class	Good

Source: FHWA National Bridge Inventory, 2025 data as reported by the Connecticut department of transportation.

Bridge	Built	Vehicles/day	Condition
Interstate 95 over Canal Dock Road	2015	187,800	Good
Interstate-95 over West River & SR 745	2018	142,200	Good
Route 71 over Sodom Brook	2019	141,900	Good
Interstate-91 over I-91 Ramp 002	1965	141,200	Fair
Interstate-91&rt15 over Willow Brook	1964	136,800	Fair
Interstate-91 over Grand Avenue	1965	135,400	Fair