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Route 159 is a 21.14-mile-long (34.02 km) state highway connecting the Hartford and Springfield areas in the U.S. states of Connecticut and Massachusetts.It begins at the Hartford–Windsor town line and proceeds northward along the west bank of the Connecticut River towards Agawam, Massachusetts.
Route 187 is a 27.23-mile-long (43.82 km) secondary state route in the U.S. states of Connecticut and Massachusetts.It begins in the city of Hartford at Albany Avenue (), travels north through the towns of Bloomfield, Windsor, East Granby and Suffield until the Connecticut-Massachusetts state line.
The route acquired its modern designation in the 1932 state highway renumbering, becoming a loop route off then U.S. Route 5A (US 5A, modern Route 159) through the town center of Suffield. In 1950, the north end was realigned to extend into Agawam. The portion in Agawam is a municipal road and is not a state highway (i.e. not a state-maintained ...
The Massachusetts Highway Commission noted in 1912 that between Longmeadow and Agawam, the traffic between the Pioneer Valley and Connecticut was heavier on the east side. [7] The western route from Hartford to West Springfield, via what is now River Road in Agawam [8] and Route 159 in Connecticut, was designated US 5 Alternate. [9]
To support plans for urban renewal along the "low value" waterfront, the highway crossed the Connecticut River to parallel active New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad tracks on the Springfield side of the river, bypassing West Springfield and Agawam, Massachusetts. Later, this path was perceived as cutting off the city from the river ...
Route 147 is a 4.23-mile-long (6.81 km) east–west state highway in Massachusetts.It runs from Agawam east to U.S. Route 5 (US 5) in West Springfield.It follows the easternmost few miles of the former route of Route 57 before it was moved onto a freeway a mile south, the Henry E. Bodurtha Highway, completed in 1966.