particularly at the end of the summer, with all kinds of folks driving on I-95 toward Cape Cod or Maine, and add to that (1) those that commute and (2) those that are heading for the mega-casinos just north and east of New London.

I would seriously consider the ferry at the east end of Long Island which sails to downtown New London.

We took the Bridgeport-Port Jefferson ferry a couple of years ago, after attending a concert in Bridgeport in order to go to Southampton, and it was a nice operation (at the time, it was $53 for the vehicle and two passengers). But Bridgeport to New London is something like 60 miles, and the traffic could well be a rolling back-up for that entire stretch.