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The Connecticut Turnpike opened to traffic on January 2, 1958, at 2:30 p.m. [2] [3] However, the westernmost portion of the highway (the three miles [4.8 km] connecting Greenwich with the New England Thruway) opened 10 months later. Tolls were originally collected through a series of eight toll booths along the route.
See Middle Road Turnpike (1803) Salem and Hamburg Turnpike: May 1824: Salem - Lyme: Route 82, Darling Road, Route 156, Cove Road Pines Bridge Turnpike: May 1824: Pines Bridge - Middlebury - Woodbury: Route 42, Old Litchfield Turnpike, Chestnut Tree Hill Road, Long Meadow Road, Tranquility Road, Quassapaug Road Guilford and Durham Turnpike: May ...
USBR 7 runs parallel to U.S. Route 7 from a junction with the East Coast Greenway in Norwalk, Connecticut, to Route Verte 4 at the Canadian border. [2] The route is currently only signed in Connecticut. [4]
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 ...
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. Highway 124 uses a newer alignment through Putnam Memorial State Park instead of the 19th century turnpike alignment (Sunset Hill Road). It also continued into downtown ...
The turnpike, known as the Pettipauge and Guilford Turnpike, used Green Hill Road in Madison and Killingworth then modern Route 80 to Deep River. In 1824, another turnpike was built, beginning in the Fair Haven section of New Haven, heading eastward along modern Route 80, and ending at the Pettipauge and Guilford Turnpike in Killingworth center.
Modern Route 82 east of Route 85 was built along the alignment of an early toll road known as the Salem and Norwich Turnpike, which was chartered in 1827 to connect its namesake cities. The toll road was extended west to the village of Hadlyme in 1834 by another turnpike corporation, which built the Hadlyme and Salem Turnpike .
North of I-95 in Clinton, the road is known as Killingworth Turnpike. In Killingworth, Route 81 becomes Clinton Road and has a junction with Route 80 south of the town center at a rotary. North of Route 80, the road becomes known as Higganum Road, intersecting with Route 148 north of the town center before crossing into the town of Haddam.