Connecticut Roads - CT 15 - Wilbur Cross Pkwy.

: Wilbur Cross Parkway


The shield on top of this page is extremely old, possibly original to the highway; the state outline has not been used for quite some time, and though a few BGS's with it remain (scroll down to find a couple), none have CONN written on top. This one was posted in a construction zone just west of the Milford Parkway, so someone had it lying around, but it's gone again.
Northbound


The shield atop the page was on the Sikorsky Bridge across the Housatonic River, technically still the Merritt Pkwy. but only for another moment until Exit 54 and Milford Pkwy. Wheelers Farms Road is also accessible from Milford Parkway, which meets the Merritt and Wilbur Cross at a tri-point just north of I-95, due to the Milford having a huge trumpet loop on the northern ("western", or SB) side of the highway.


The NB entrance to the West Rock Tunnel, underneath West Rock Park.

Apparently a step behind in accepting those of other sexualities, CT offers help. Or not.


There are a lot of Main Streets in Connecticut. Here at Exit 68, where CT 15 meets I-91, is the co-beginning of I-691 and CT 66, as well as the major connection for traffic heading toward Boston and Hartford from points south and west. CT 15 traffic uses I-91 for a few exits to avoid the signallized and not-lightly-trafficked Berlin Turnpike (CT 15/US 5), and then jumps back on 15 to find I-84 later on. Exit numbering, interestingly, follows Berlin Turnpike intersections, though there are no actual numbers posted there. Visit the link at bottom for that part of CT 15.



Shortly after beginning, Wilbur Cross Pkwy. dallies with I-91, picking up all of the Boston-NYC passenger car traffic before departing. The first few ornamental overpasses after that are Yale Ave., North State St., and CT 22 (Bishop St.) at Exit 63. There's a different design at every bridge.


SB, you can look down into the tunnel instead of up. You can also click on the video to drive through it and (briefly) enjoy the Jersey-grown sound of Matt Koziol.


Abandoned rest area. There wasn't much there, so few people mourn its closure.


Okay, see, CT doesn't do the circle thing. And with the black backgrounds? Very NJDOT. So, the contractor, admitting his error without losing face, peels back a corner of the circle - "My shields aren't wrong, see? They're square at heart!" Well, it's as good an explanation as any for these asymmetrical aberrations.


End of Wilbur Cross Parkway and beginning of Merritt Parkway. I don't know why there are overhead and ground-mounted signs with the same distance.
Continue north on CT 15 to Berlin Tpk. and Wilbur Cross Hwy.
Continue south on CT 15 to Merritt Pkwy.
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Exit 54, Milford Parkway
to US 1 or I-95
Exits 57-58 to CT 34
Exit 68N to I-91
Exit 68W to I-691
Exit 68E to CT 66
Wilbur Cross Pkwy. on Steve Anderson's nycroads.com
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