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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 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).
Point Grove Road at the Massachusetts state line in Suffield: Babbs Road — — SR 597: 0.58: 0.93 Route 10 in Southington: I-84 in Southington — — — SR 598: 0.76: 1.22 Pulaski Circle in Hartford: I-91 in Hartford: Whitehead Highway — — SR 600: 0.67: 1.08 Route 138 in Lisbon: Route 169 in Lisbon: Kinsman Hill Road — — SR 602: 3 ...
U.S. Routes 1, 5, 6, and 7, plus 202 were used as designations on several primary state highways, replacing New England routes 1, 2, 3, and 4, respectively. The other New England routes that were not re-designated as U.S. routes became ordinary state highways but kept their number designation, which are used even today (with some realignment).
A previous road called State Highway 137 was created in the 1920s, which followed contemporary Route 101 between Route 169 and Route 12. [4] This route, in eastern Connecticut, shared no overlap with contemporary Route 137. In late 1931, a route roughly corresponding to contemporary Route 137 was proposed as Route 27. [4]
In the 1920s, the road from downtown New London to Ocean Beach Park (Ocean Avenue from Route 1) was designated as a secondary state highway known as Highway 340. In the 1932 state highway renumbering , [ 2 ] Ocean Avenue (old Highway 340) and an extension north of U.S. Route 1 along Jefferson Avenue up to Route 85 was designated as Route 213.
The southern half of modern Route 203 (from Route 32 to the north junction with Route 14) was part of the Windham and Mansfield Turnpike, which was chartered in 1800.In 1922, when Connecticut first assigned route numbers to its main roads, the road from South Windham to North Windham was designated as 'State Highway 222'.
Route 162 was created in the 1932 state highway renumbering as a five-mile (8 km) road from Route 1 near the Orange-West Haven line to the junction between Jones Hill Road and Ocean Avenue near the Milford-West Haven line. [2] The portion in Milford was originally numbered as part of Route 122. This segment was removed from Route 122 and ...