Feds back Bike-Share in Bridgeport, traffic projects in Greenwich and Norwalk

Bridgeport won $1.6 million in funding from the Federal Highway Administration to roll out a Bike-Share project, allowing participants to pick up and return bicycles at designated locations when needed.

Other towns to be awarded federal transportation funding included the town of Greenwich, which received $2.8 million to install adaptive signal control technology along the Arch St. corridor to improve the flow of traffic between traffic lights, and the city of Norwalk, which received $3 million to complete the third phase of an ongoing traffic signal upgrade program on Route 1, Route 123, East Avenue and Strawberry Hill Avenue.

“These ”¦ projects include computer-coordinated traffic signal systems that will help eliminate traffic bottlenecks and improve the flow of cars and trucks between traffic signals,” said Gov. Dannel P. Malloy, in a prepared statement. “With less idling at signals and less stop and go between signals, there will be fewer exhaust emissions and less fuel wasted.”