Long Wharf: The former Long Wharf industrial area is home to mixed-use commercial, industrial and municipal development. Sargent Drive businesses include Gateway Community Technical College, the New Haven Register, the Regional Water Authority, and Assa Abloy (Sargent Manufacturing), among others.

The new Church Street South Extension, completed in December 2003, provides a direct connection from Sargent Drive, near the Assa Abloy building, to Church Street, near New Haven's Union Station. The bridge over the rail yard will connect downtown to the Long Wharf area shoreline.

The Long Wharf/Vietnam Veterans Memorial Park runs along the shore, adjacent to the Long Wharf Maritime Center (a multi-story office complex), a Visitor's Information Center and the pier where the schooners Amistad and Quinnipiac are docked. Bayview Park and the Long Wharf Nature Preserve are at the southern end of Long Wharf Drive, just south of and adjacent to the corridor.

IMPACTS: The I-95 New Haven Harbor Crossing Corridor Improvement Program design does not change access in the Long Wharf area.

While reconstruction may occur under a separate contract in the future (see below), the Program does not include work on I-95 through Long Wharf. A nominal amount of widening will be required between Exit 46 (Sargent Drive) and Canal Dock Road to transition from the reconstructed I-95/I-91/Route 34 Interchange back to existing conditions in the Long Wharf Area.

The New Haven Harbor Access Study evaluated alternatives for a transportation improvement project in the Long Wharf area. One of the alternatives, the “at grade” alternative, is being explored in more detail through the Long Wharf Environmental Assessment.