Throwback Thursday I-95 CT Tpke through the years

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From the Hartford Courant:

http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/courant-250/hc-pictures-connecticut-turnpike-i95-through-the-years-20131204,0,2448490.photogallery

CT was the first state to completely finish their portion of I-95. Good news, but now CT is dead last in congestion for I-95.


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[Brandon]

From the Hartford Courant:

http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/courant-250/hc-pictures-connecticut-turnpike-i95-through-the-years-20131204,0,2448490.photogallery

CT was the first state to completely finish their portion of I-95. Good news, but now CT is dead last in congestion for I-95.

Of course, New Jersey and DC never actually finished theirs.

[KEVIN_224]

Awesome! I hope they do this picture gallery for I-84 and I-91 as well! 

[PHLBOS]

From the Hartford Courant:

http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/courant-250/hc-pictures-connecticut-turnpike-i95-through-the-years-20131204,0,2448490.photogallery

CT was the first state to completely finish their portion of I-95. Good news, but now CT is dead last in congestion for I-95.

Of course, New Jersey and DC never actually finished theirs.

Don't forget Massachusetts.

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Awesome! I hope they do this picture gallery for I-84 and I-91 as well! 

I heard rumors there's a library at the CT DOT in Newington, which lots of documents and pictures.  I also hear the public can view it.  I forget where I heard it from but I would love to see the pictures from the 1950s-1980s that they have.  Anybody know if what I heard true?

[KEVIN_224]

Gee...as many times as I've been by that place, I've never been in it. I know it sits on some ROW reserved for a cancelled highway project.

[dgolub]

CT was the first state to completely finish their portion of I-95. Good news, but now CT is dead last in congestion for I-95.

How about the section along the Cross Bronx Expressway in New York?  It's hard to beat that what it comes to congestion?

[Alps]

From the Hartford Courant:

http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/courant-250/hc-pictures-connecticut-turnpike-i95-through-the-years-20131204,0,2448490.photogallery

CT was the first state to completely finish their portion of I-95. Good news, but now CT is dead last in congestion for I-95.


Also my alias on Flickr
http://www.flickr.com/photos/98731835@N05/

Image 6 makes me want to punch puppies.

[jp the roadgeek]

Gee...as many times as I've been by that place, I've never been in it. I know it sits on some ROW reserved for a cancelled highway project.

Yes. It sits on the junction of where I-291 would have met the Berlin Turnpike (US 5/CT 15).  As another throwback, interesting piece on this old WFSB (then WTIC) newscast from 1974.  Notice the sign for the Capitol Ave exit being the default exit for I-91 North from I-84 East when the I-484 tunnel was proposed (story starts at about the 3:20 mark)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGjK_NQQjWE

[NE2]

Notice the sign for the Capitol Ave exit being the default exit for I-91 North from I-84 East when the I-484 tunnel was proposed (story starts at about the 3:20 mark)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGjK_NQQjWE

Still signed after you take the exit, including these older signs (is that first assembly telling you to take I-91 in case of nuclear war?)
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.762845,-72.682457&spn=0.01298,0.028346&gl=us&t=m&z=16&layer=c&cbll=41.762893,-72.682693&panoid=Rx_yDp91S1JrAFvcC_3fxQ&cbp=12,139.49,,1,-15.03
http://maps.google.com/maps?ll=41.763694,-72.680697&spn=0.01298,0.028346&gl=us&t=m&z=16&layer=c&cbll=41.76361,-72.680731&panoid=fO8dS-96TRSoDaJMNt2waA&cbp=12,40.84,,2,-3.23

[KEVIN_224]

Yep! From the very last days of channel 3 and their WTIC-TV call letters. They'd become WFSB-TV that year when Post-Newsweek would buy the station from the Traveler's Insurance Corporation.

The exit sign you refer to is today's Exit 48B, which is Capitol Avenue from I-84 East. I believe the flyover ramp that's after the tunnel opened in the fall of 1990 (I was first on it back on October 13, 1990).

[D-Dey65]

They call this a complex interchange?
http://www.trbimg.com/img-529f8816/turbine/hc-pictures-connecticut-turnpike-i95-through-t-011/500/500x330



It's just a diamond interchange with a connecting flyover.

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Briantroutman's post got me thinking.  Why did the CT Tpke have the yellow line on the right side of the road??

The thread on the Connecticut Turnpike got me looking for old photos, and it was odd to see the "italics” on early Connecticut Turnpike signage (like this…)

[KEVIN_224]

Neato! That's the Byram River bridge, heading north into Greenwich from Port Chester, NY. It looks to be from the late 1960s or so. Any idea what that little "T-I-S" sign could've been for? (It's not the state line, since that would be behind the photographer.) Also, I'm almost certain there's a LGS for distances in the background (likely for Bridgeport and New Haven).

[PHLBOS]

It looks to be from the late 1960s or so.

Judging by the cars in the photo, it looks to be from the early 1960s... at the earliest.

[KEVIN_224]

Also, I see there's been no exit 1 from the beginning either, assuming "Exit 1" meant you were exiting the Connecticut Turnpike. Weird!

[PHLBOS]

Also, I see there's been no exit 1 from the beginning either, assuming "Exit 1" meant you were exiting the Connecticut Turnpike. Weird!

PTC did similar back when PA had sequential exit numbering and the PA Turnpike (I-76) had its western mainline toll plaza closer to the Ohio border; it was indeed listed as Exit 1.

[Brandon]

Also, I see there's been no exit 1 from the beginning either, assuming "Exit 1" meant you were exiting the Connecticut Turnpike. Weird!

PTC did similar back when PA had sequential exit numbering and the PA Turnpike (I-76) had its western mainline toll plaza closer to the Ohio border; it was indeed listed as Exit 1.

Same with the Ohio Turnpike when it too had sequential exit numbering.  The first toll plaza was "Exit 1".

[KEVIN_224]

Before the renumbering 10 years ago to mileage based exits on I-95/Maine Turnpike, the exits went Exit 1, 2, 3, 4, [TOLL PLAZA] 2, 3, etc. So glad they fixed that! (It's now 1, 2, 3, 7, [TOLL PLAZA] 19, 25, etc.) I'm guessing the York toll plaza was "Exit 1"?

[Alps]

It looks to be from the late 1960s or so.

Judging by the cars in the photo, it looks to be from the early 1960s.

Cars are going to lag the photo by a couple of years (:

Briantroutman's post got me thinking.  Why did the CT Tpke have the yellow line on the right side of the road??

1960s were still pre-standardization of striping. Some states used only white, some used yellow in varying capacities. This is what the CT Tpk decided to do.

Before the renumbering 10 years ago to mileage based exits on I-95/Maine Turnpike, the exits went Exit 1, 2, 3, 4, [TOLL PLAZA] 2, 3, etc. So glad they fixed that! (It's now 1, 2, 3, 7, [TOLL PLAZA] 19, 25, etc.) I'm guessing the York toll plaza was "Exit 1"?

Technically, NJ Turnpike's Exit 1 is the toll plaza at the southern end. The US 40, NJ 140, etc. ramps aren't numbered.

[cpzilliacus]

It looks to be from the late 1960s or so.

Judging by the cars in the photo, it looks to be from the early 1960s.

Could be.  That "crackerbox" GMC tractor on the other side of the Turnpike screams "1960's" (and it probably had a "screamin' Jimmy" 2-stroke Diesel engine under the cab), but they were built through most of the 1960's. 

Youtube of a nicely restored crackerbox (with "screamin' Jimmy" power): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xft8IlxfChs.

[ixnay]

From the Hartford Courant:

http://www.courant.com/news/connecticut/courant-250/hc-pictures-connecticut-turnpike-i95-through-the-years-20131204,0,2448490.photogallery

CT was the first state to completely finish their portion of I-95. Good news, but now CT is dead last in congestion for I-95.

Of course, New Jersey and DC never actually finished theirs.

Don't forget Massachusetts.

D.C., MD, and MA gave in to the NIMBYS and rerouted 95.  So did NJ, but the Garden State is waiting for the PA Turnpike connection in Bucks Co. to be finished, to finish its part of 95.

ixnay

[dgolub]

D.C., MD, and MA gave in to the NIMBYS and rerouted 95.  So did NJ, but the Garden State is waiting for the PA Turnpike connection in Bucks Co. to be finished, to finish its part of 95.

Strictly speaking, they've extended I-95 down the turnpike and along the turnpike extension to end at the New Jersey-Pennsylvania border, where it becomes I-276.  However, the I-95 designation along the turnpike extension is unsigned.  It's the redesignation of a piece of I-276 as I-95 in Pennsylvania that will connect the two sections and close the gap, although there are portions of I-95 in both New Jersey and Pennsylvania that will get decommissioned and redesignated I-195.

[SignBridge]

I like that old photo above of the Conn. Turnpike's original blue exit signs. The Northeast's toll roads each had their own unique sign system from the 1950's. Does anyone remember Conn's overhead exit direction signs with the long arrow pointing down/right?

[NE2]

Does anyone remember Conn's overhead exit direction signs with the long arrow pointing down/right?

There are several here: http://www.alpsroads.net/roads/ct/i-95/n1.html