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[abqtraveler]

Btw, what's with the odd setup with the truck weighing area!?!?! Trucks pull off and then have to circle back before they get on the highway.  Any other state would have them drive just straight through without the loop.  The extra-long on-ramp creates issues as because of the horrible design trucks need that long on-ramp to get up to speed. Regular drivers use the on-ramp to bypass backups.  I think well if the truck weigh station wasn't designed badly they wouldn't need that long on-ramp.

The same with some rest areas.  Cars pass the parking exit and then get to the entrance.  So you have to do a loop around.  Typical bad CT design.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Meriden,+CT/@41.5530457,-72.7432094,249m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x89e7ca2124b4cab7:0xf8fbded56523558a!8m2!3d41.5381535!4d-72.8070435!16zL20vMDFtMjJu

I think Connecticut likes to multitask. Its eastbound I-84 welcome center is also an exit.

Exit 22 northbound on 95 as well - It's the Round Hill Rd and Rest Area exit all in one!

Which I don't even know why they have an interchange at Round Hill Road, given that there's one at Mill Plain Road about 1/2 mile south, and at Route 1, about a mile north.

[connroadgeek]

Which I don't even know why they have an interchange at Round Hill Road, given that there's one at Mill Plain Road about 1/2 mile south, and at Route 1, about a mile north.

Connecticut likes its exits I guess!

[bob7374]

Exit renumbering on CT 8 to start on November 22, and take 2 years:
https://www.ctpost.com/news/article/route-8-exit-numbers-ct-bridgeport-valley-17571706.php?

[connroadgeek]

Hopefully they do a better job than the mess on Route 9 and the signs are better than the last Route 8 sign replacement with oversized fonts and no spacing.

[Plutonic Panda]

Final report on I-95 improvements between Rhode Island and Branford to be released in Fall 2023. Looks to be widening, removing left highway ramps, and correcting other deficiencies such as short merging lanes.

https://www.roadsbridges.com/highway-maintenance/news/21437987/connecticut-department-of-transportation-looking-to-improve-i95

[RobbieL2415]

Final report on I-95 improvements between Rhode Island and Branford to be released in Fall 2023. Looks to be widening, removing left highway ramps, and correcting other deficiencies such as short merging lanes.

https://www.roadsbridges.com/highway-maintenance/news/21437987/connecticut-department-of-transportation-looking-to-improve-i95

Would it be too much to ask for a I-95 SB to I-395 N ramp?

[jp the roadgeek]

Final report on I-95 improvements between Rhode Island and Branford to be released in Fall 2023. Looks to be widening, removing left highway ramps, and correcting other deficiencies such as short merging lanes.

https://www.roadsbridges.com/highway-maintenance/news/21437987/connecticut-department-of-transportation-looking-to-improve-i95

Would it be too much to ask for a I-95 SB to I-395 N ramp?

Only if it involves completing CT 11

[Ted$8roadFan]

Final report on I-95 improvements between Rhode Island and Branford to be released in Fall 2023. Looks to be widening, removing left highway ramps, and correcting other deficiencies such as short merging lanes.

https://www.roadsbridges.com/highway-maintenance/news/21437987/connecticut-department-of-transportation-looking-to-improve-i95

Would it be too much to ask for a I-95 SB to I-395 N ramp?

Only if it involves completing CT 11

Both would be welcome, but it's more likely state will have a hard enough time getting done even a fraction of the improvements that will come from this latest study.

[connroadgeek]

Only if it involves completing CT 11

If you finished 11 it would be better to have separate full interchanges between 11 & 395 and 395 & 95 rather than one big complicated 3-way interchange.

[RobbieL2415]

Only if it involves completing CT 11

If you finished 11 it would be better to have separate full interchanges between 11 & 395 and 395 & 95 rather than one big complicated 3-way interchange.

Except a 3-way interchange was the original design.

[connroadgeek]

Except a 3-way interchange was the original design.

Sure but it would be easier to have 11 end at 395 a bit north of 95 where there is plenty of land, and then add the two missing ramps to complete the 395/95 interchange where space is much tighter. Alternatively you could realign 95 a bit north into that empty space where the power line ROW is if you really want to build a big complex 3-way interchange. In any case it's not going to fit within the exit 75-76 footprint.

[shadyjay]

Original-original plans for Rt 11 had it meeting I-95 somewhere in the Cross Road neck of the woods.  Then the interchange movements could've been made simpler and in a smaller space.  At some point I believe in the 1980s, the southern terminus was shifted to the present-day I-95/I-395 interchange. 

[kernals12]

Public meeting on I-84 improvements in Danbury scheduled for December 14 https://portal.ct.gov/DOT/CTDOT-Press-Releases/2022/Public-Invited-to-Public-Information-Meeting-on-I-84-Danbury-Study

[connroadgeek]

Public meeting on I-84 improvements in Danbury scheduled for December 14 https://portal.ct.gov/DOT/CTDOT-Press-Releases/2022/Public-Invited-to-Public-Information-Meeting-on-I-84-Danbury-Study

Are they planning on picking one of the 22 concepts or are they planning on implementing one or more of the concepts? There's about 15 advancing concepts up for consideration which seems kind of high for a project like this.

[cockroachking]

Public meeting on I-84 improvements in Danbury scheduled for December 14 https://portal.ct.gov/DOT/CTDOT-Press-Releases/2022/Public-Invited-to-Public-Information-Meeting-on-I-84-Danbury-Study

Are they planning on picking one of the 22 concepts or are they planning on implementing one or more of the concepts? There's about 15 advancing concepts up for consideration which seems kind of high for a project like this.

The concepts are just a bunch of different ideas, some only covering one interchange. The ultimate recommendations will be based off many of these "advancing" concepts.

[kurumi]

Click on "Learn More" and the map for Concept 14 (C/D road between exit 7 (US 7/202) and exit 8 (US 6)).

There's a partial diverging diamond shown for the exit 8 ramps to and from the west.

[shadyjay]

CT 9 resigning update:

Happy Thanksgiving!  Sometime in the past couple days, these went up:

20221124_144415 by Jay Hogan, on Flickr

... and this came down...

20221124_144354 by Jay Hogan, on Flickr

...revealing this...

20221124_144458 by Jay Hogan, on Flickr

The extra pavement is where the 3rd lane used to be, which was an onramp from Springbrook Road.  Now traffic entering from that onramp has to merge.  Its no big deal... its not a heavily trafficked onramp. 


Further north, not much progress as of late.  There are still next-to-nothing for sheet aluminums for the central and northern contracts up.  There are still several overheads not yet installed in Berlin, New Britain, and for I-84.  Two new overheads on CT 9 South in the southern contract are awaiting signs to be placed on their new support structures.  And there's a handful of ground-mount signs still to be installed. 

[connroadgeek]

Why assign exit numbers to a terminus? If the highway wasn't ending at another highway we wouldn't call it an exit.

[jp the roadgeek]

Why assign exit numbers to a terminus? If the highway wasn't ending at another highway we wouldn't call it an exit.

It seems to be the practice in a mileage based system.  MA added numbers to almost every terminus in the state in its renumbering, with I-190 South to I-290 West being the only exception.  Unless it's a single directional terminus (such as the southern end of I-395 in Waterford), having exit numbers is the norm.

[connroadgeek]

It seems to be the practice in a mileage based system.  MA added numbers to almost every terminus in the state in its renumbering, with I-190 South to I-290 West being the only exception.  Unless it's a single directional terminus (such as the southern end of I-395 in Waterford), having exit numbers is the norm.

Shouldn't the exits be 1 and 1A in a mileage based system (or 0 and 0A)?

[jp the roadgeek]

It seems to be the practice in a mileage based system.  MA added numbers to almost every terminus in the state in its renumbering, with I-190 South to I-290 West being the only exception.  Unless it's a single directional terminus (such as the southern end of I-395 in Waterford), having exit numbers is the norm.

Shouldn't the exits be 1 and 1A in a mileage based system (or 0 and 0A)?

No.  If you're going to have multiple exits of the same milepoint, both/all exits have to have suffixes.  So therefore the 1A and 1B are correct.  You'll have an interesting somewhat of an exception at the east end of I-691 when you'll have 1A-1C for the I-91/CT 15 exits, and 1 for Preston Ave and West Main St (Current 12 and 13), but that would be because those exits would be based on CT 66 mileage which diverges east from the same point I-691 mileage diverges west.  If CT used Exit 0, it would be 0A and 0B.

[MikeCL]

Another view

https://maps.app.goo.gl/S78HX5DUvJWABqD78?g_st=ic

However I think those are the flip dot displays the  vane style looks like the older VFD numbers display?

Btw why on earth did they take down that over the road VMS only to put in a fixed mobile VMS which is harder to see?

That one is finally getting replaced. You can see the new pole northbound between the state line and exit 2.

That does me no good since I normally get on from the on-ramp.. now sure why they didn't put it back in the old location... I happened to see it coming from Brooklyn on Saturday early morning

[MikeCL]

Btw, what's with the odd setup with the truck weighing area!?!?! Trucks pull off and then have to circle back before they get on the highway.  Any other state would have them drive just straight through without the loop.  The extra-long on-ramp creates issues as because of the horrible design trucks need that long on-ramp to get up to speed. Regular drivers use the on-ramp to bypass backups.  I think well if the truck weigh station wasn't designed badly they wouldn't need that long on-ramp.

The same with some rest areas.  Cars pass the parking exit and then get to the entrance.  So you have to do a loop around.  Typical bad CT design.
https://www.google.com/maps/place/Meriden,+CT/@41.5530457,-72.7432094,249m/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x89e7ca2124b4cab7:0xf8fbded56523558a!8m2!3d41.5381535!4d-72.8070435!16zL20vMDFtMjJu

I think Connecticut likes to multitask. Its eastbound I-84 welcome center is also an exit.

Exit 22 northbound on 95 as well - It's the Round Hill Rd and Rest Area exit all in one!

Lol that one is funny because drivers cut back when they noticed they are in the wrong lane.

[MikeCL]

New sign saw this the other day and a section of led's are out.. I haven't checked to see if it's fixed but I doubt it.

[connroadgeek]

ConnDOT and their bargain basement signs. Guess Connecticut can't afford the nicer ones like they have in New York and Florida. Connecticut's cheapness in electronic signs extends to those at the train stations as well. The message on that sign though is all too common