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Interstate Highways in the U.S. state of Connecticut run a total of 446.33 miles (718.30 km). Connecticut has three primary highways and five auxiliary highways.Most of the highways are maintained by the Connecticut Department of Transportation, with the exception of Interstate 684, which is maintained by the New York State Department of Transportation.
United States Numbered Highways in the U.S. state of Connecticut, are numbered by the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) and maintained by the Connecticut Department of Transportation, a total of 547.75 miles (881.52 km) as a system of state highways and are numbered from 1 to 202.
Turnpike Road — — SR 529: 1.33: 2.14 Route 173 in West Hartford: Newington Avenue in Hartford: New Britain Avenue — — SR 530: 0.58: 0.93 Wethersfield Avenue in Hartford: Brainard Road in Hartford: Airport Road — — SR 531: 1.39: 2.24 Route 4 in Farmington: I-84 / US 6 in Farmington: South Road, Colt Highway — — SR 532: 0.44: 0.71 ...
The 14 trunk line routes of the original state highway system of Connecticut. In 1900, the State Highway Department proposed a statewide system of trunk line routes. By 1913, the system consisted of 10 north-south highways and 4 east-west highways, including the lower Boston Post Road. The system covered roughly 1,400 miles (2,300 km).
The first Connecticut road signed as 135 was State Highway 135, a road connecting New Haven and North Branford designated as such during the 1920s. [2] This route followed a section of contemporary Route 80. [2] In 1932, Route 135 was created as a 9.07 miles (14.60 km) road connecting Southbury to Middlebury. [2]
The toll road was in operation for about 40 years. In 1922, when Connecticut first numbered its state highways, the route of the old turnpike was designated as State Highway 168. Modern Route 87 was established in 1932 as a renumbering of old State Highway 168 and originally ended in Bolton like the old turnpike, [ 2 ] approximately at the ...
Route 139 begins as North Branford Road at an intersection with US 1 in the northern part of Branford. It heads northeast, crossing the Branford River soon entering the town of North Branford . At the town line, the road changes name to Branford Road and continues northward for about 1.5 miles (2.4 km) until its end at an intersection with ...
The road from Meriden to Middletown was the Middletown and Meriden Turnpike chartered in 1809 and used the former surface alignment of Route 66 in Meriden (East Main Street). Between Middletown and East Hampton, modern Route 66 was the western half of the Colchester and Chatham Turnpike (the eastern half is modern Route 16), which was chartered ...