An extradosed bridge – often described as a hybrid of a cable-stayed and a box-girder structure – now stretches across the Quinnipiac River in New Haven, Conn., as the crown jewel of a $2 billion, 7.2-mile-long Interstate 95 improvement program.

The Connecticut Department of Transportation has been chronicling the project, including the bridge construction and intrerchanges.

The bridge that the new span will replace, known locally as the Q Bridge, is far beyond its design capacity of 40,000 cars daily.

The new bridge, which will keep the old bridge's official name as the Pearl Harbor Memorial Bridge, will be a 10-lane thoroughfare.