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Still, traffic and deadly accidents continued to increase each year on the turnpike, and by the 1990s the Connecticut Turnpike had started to become known as "the Highway of Death". [ 12 ] Furthermore, while most of the turnpike is signed as I-95 or I-395, the highway was designed and built before the Interstate Highway System was established.
I-95 follows the Connecticut Turnpike from the New York state line eastward for 88 miles (142 km). This portion of the highway passes through the most heavily urbanized section of Connecticut along the shoreline between Greenwich and New Haven, with daily traffic volumes of around 150,000 vehicles throughout the entire 48-mile (77 km) length between the New York state line and the junction ...
Portion north of the Stevenson Dam operated as the River Turnpike between 1834 and 1841 Derby Turnpike: May 1798: New Haven - Derby: Route 34: Last turnpike in Connecticut (stopped collecting tolls in 1895) Greenwoods Turnpike: October 1798: New Hartford - Winsted - Norfolk - Massachusetts (Twelfth Massachusetts Turnpike) U.S. Route 44, Old ...
Interstate 95 (I-95) is the main north–south Interstate Highway on the East Coast of the United States, [3] running from U.S. Route 1 (US 1) in Miami, Florida, north to the Houlton–Woodstock Border Crossing between Maine and the Canadian province of New Brunswick.
Route 154 is a state highway in Connecticut running for 28.24 miles (45.45 km). It serves as one of the main thoroughfares in the town of Old Saybrook, intersecting twice with U.S. Route 1 (US 1). North of Interstate 95 (I-95), Route 154 runs parallel to Route 9, along to the west bank of the Connecticut River. The route ends in Higganum at ...
The old road ran north up to the Branch Turnpike (Route 136) and used the Branch Turnpike to reach Easton. [4] Both turnpike roads are collectively known as Black Rock Turnpike today. In the 1922, the Bridgeport to Danbury road became a state road and was known as State Highway 124.
Route 6: north-south from New Haven to Suffield via Meriden (concurrent with Route 5 north of Hartford), roughly modern U.S. Route 5, Route 71, Route 159; Route 7: north-south from New Haven to Enfield via Middletown, roughly modern Route 17, Route 99, U.S. Route 5; Route 8: north-south from Old Saybrook to Hartford, roughly modern Route 9 ...
Hartford Turnpike in North Haven: US 5 in North Haven: Devine Street — — SR 721: 1.85: 2.98 Route 67 in Seymour: Old Turnpike in Beacon Falls: North Street, North Main Street, South Main Street — — SR 722: 0.37: 0.60 US 1 in Bridgeport: Route 8 in Bridgeport: Chopsey Hill Road — — SR 723: 0.16: 0.26 North Main Street (SR 710) in ...