WESTPORT — The town’s entire supply of COVID-19 at-home test kits was distributed by 4:15 p.m. this afternoon, about an hour and a half after the kits started being handed out,

Access to the distribution site at the Greens Farms Railroad Station was shut down at 3:45 p.m., but those vehicles within the station’s parking lot were given the last remaining kits.

Long lines of vehicles outside the station lot had to be turned away.

Officials began distributing the kits — available on a first-come, first-served basis — about 2:40 p.m. today, which was about 20 minutes earlier than the original stating time, because of traffic clogging streets leading to the Greens Farms Railroad Station.

Before distribution of COVID-19 at-home test kits even began, streets leading to the train depot were inundated with long lines of vehicles in both directions.

Prior to that, residents begun lining up at the distribution point — the rail depot’s parking lot #1 — before 1 p.m.

Town officials announced the highly anticipated distribution of the test kits to Westport residents only a few hours earlier Monday, but word spread rapidly through local news outlets and social media.

In anticipation of a large response to the distribution plan, First Selectwoman Jennifer Tooker had urged, “Residents’ patience and cooperation are appreciated” in her Monday morning announcement.