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The Connecticut Turnpike was designed and built much differently than other toll roads built around the same time. Unlike toll roads in other states that operated under semi-autonomous, quasi-public toll road authorities, the Connecticut Turnpike was operated by the Connecticut Highway Department (later the Connecticut Department of ...
Much of the road has been destroyed by the Shepaug Dam and Stevenson Dam; the rest is Grove Street, River Road, and Route 34: 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 ...
A traffic camera is a video camera which observes vehicular traffic on a road. Typically, traffic cameras are put along major roads such as highways, freeways, expressways and arterial roads, and are connected by optical fibers buried alongside or under the road, with electricity provided either by mains power in urban areas, by solar panels or other alternative power sources which provide ...
The entire parkway was a toll road when it opened in 1941. Tolls were removed from both the Merritt and Wilbur Cross Parkways in 1988. Reflecting its history as a toll road, two pairs of service plazas lie opposite one-another along the parkway where the tolls once stood, in Orange and North Haven. Both have been renovated since 2011, along ...
In 1957, Connecticut received approval for the routes of its three primary Interstate highways: I-84, I-91, and I-95. This plan was extended in 1959 to include I-291 and I-491. The first Interstate Highway signs were installed on a completed section of I-91 north of Hartford in 1961.
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 ...
Worthington Ridge Road, formerly part of US 5. US 5A — — Meriden: Wallingford: 1932: 1963 A 7-mile section including Old Colony Road. US 5A — — New Haven: New Haven: 1932: 1940 State Street south from today's Route 22; now part of US 5: US 5A — — New Haven: North Haven: c. 1950: 1966
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.