Introduction
There is no useful information on this page.
In fact, had responsible parties done the work to find this out, it might rank
in the top 200 or so geeked-up pages on the Web.
Pathologically Eclectic Route Lists, if you will.
Get outta town!
State signed routes that don't cross a town line:
- 17A, Portland
- 43, Cornwall
- 100, East Haven
- 102, Ridgefield
- 112, Salisbury
- 125, Cornwall
- 135, Fairfield
- 152, Orange
- 155, Middletown
- 172, Southbury
- 182A, Colebrook
- 194, South Windsor
- 200, Thompson
- 203, Windham
- 215, Groton
- 214, Ledyard
- 234, Stonington
- 286, Ellington
- 314, Wethersfield
- 315, Simsbury
- 318, Barkhamsted
- 319, Stafford
- 349, Groton
Route what?
Old (but post-1932)
Connecticut route numbers no longer used for state roads:
- 18, Cromwell
- 29, Darien-New Canaan
- 51, Lyme-East Lyme
- 52, Waterford-Thompson
- 65, Bridgeport-Trumbull
- 76, Windsor
- 84, Groton-Stonington
- 86, Old Lyme
- 91, Chaplin-Putnam
- 93, Norwich-Massachusetts
- 95, Stonington-Sterling
- 105, Weston
- 119, Stonington
- 129, New Milford
- 141, Branford
- 143, East Haven
- 144, Essex
- 158, New Haven
- 211, Sterling
- 291, Windsor-South Windsor
But what about the 1920s?
Before 1932, there were dozens of routes
whose numbers aren't used now:
170, 180, 204, 206, 208, 210, 224, 226, 299, 300, 301, 303, 304, 306,
307, 308, 310, 311, 312, 321, 323, 325, 326, 327, 328, 329, 330, 331,
333, 335, 336, 338, 339, 340, 342, 344, 345, 346, 348, 350, 356,
358, 360, 362, 366, 368.
There might be more I haven't found yet.
You almost need a full tank
Connecticut's a small state, and most of its highways really don't go very far.
Here are the longest state roads (mileage in other states included):
- 10, 262 miles (54.28 in Connecticut)
- 12, 259 miles (54.46)
- 32, 141 miles (54.88)
- 8, 134 miles (67.34)
- 55, 132 miles (2.64)
- 138, 118 miles (17.73)
- 15, 83.53 miles
- 2, 58.03 miles
- 63, 52.57 miles
No reason to live
The shortest signed state routes:
- 125, 1.24 miles
- 182A, 1.29 miles
- 166, 1.62 miles
- 200, 1.87 miles
- 315, 1.95 miles
- 314, 2.04 miles
- 155, 2.22 miles
- 139, 2.36 miles
- 135, 2.58 miles
- 319, 2.83 miles
- 71A, 2.92 miles
- 209, 2.93 miles
To tell you, I'd have to kill you
Longest and shortest secret routes:
- 910, 0.04 miles (about 210 feet)
- 837, 0.05 miles
- (87 others are less than 1/2 mile long)
- 847, 7.46 miles
- 434, 10.15 miles
- 800, 11.83 miles (the old Route 8)
Not a through street
Most routes have both ends at another numbered route.
Here are some signed state routes that "dead end" for one reason or another:
- 4, West Hartford: state maintenance ends, Farmington Ave. continues
- 71A, New Britain: state maintenance ends near the hospital
- 176, Newington: state maintenance ends at Hartford city line
- 349, Groton: ends at Avery Point (and even has an "END 349" sign)
Roads with holes
A few state highways have "gaps" -- short sections where the road
is maintained by the city, not the state.
- 10, Hamden: 0.17-mile northbound section, where the southbound section
diverges. Southbound 10 there is officially SR 753.
- 34, New Haven: 1.03-mile eastbound section from Route 10 to the Oak St Connector on-ramp.
(The westbound road signed 34 is technically SR 706.)
- 83, Manchester: 0.77 miles, from Charter Oak St (SR 534) to Center St (US 6/44).
This is the Main Street section of "classic" downtown Manchester.
- 136, Norwalk: 1.09 miles, between Meadow Road and Washington Street.
Freeways
Freeways (or mostly freeways) in Connecticut as of 2001:
- I-84, I-91, I-95
- I-291, I-384, I-395, I-684, I-691
- CT 2, 8, 9, 11, 15, 40, 78, 695, 796
Roads that have freeway portions:
Roads with very small freewaylike sections:
Roads with freeways once planned in their paths:
- US 44; CT 10, 22, 35, 42, 58, 68, 71, 73, 79, 80, 82, 137, 140, 313
Almost Famous
State roads that intersect three or more interstates:
- 2: 84, 91, 95, 395
- 9: 84, 91, 95
- 10: 84, 89, 90, 91, 95, 691 (and formerly I-93)
- 12: 90, 91, 95, 190, 290, 395
- 32: 84, 90, 95, 395
- 34: 84, 91, 95
- 83: 84, 91, 384
- 85: 95, 384, 395
- 138: 93, 95, 195, 395
Where there's a will...
Present Connecticut 'A' routes:
2A, 14A, 17A, 71A, 182A
- Past Connecticut 'A' routes: 8A, 9A, 10A, 15A, 16A, 25A, 31A, 32A, 35A, 37A, 49A, 58A, 65A, 67A, 95A, 110A, 113A, 114A, 138A, 139A, 140A, 148A, 154A, 156A, 176A, 181A, 190A, 533A, 579A, 605A, 670A, 752A
- Present Connecticut US routes: US 1A
- Past Connecticut US routes: more than 10 other US 1A's, five US 5A's, five US 6A's, one US 44A, one US 202A
- Past Connecticut 'B' routes: 605B, 670B
Connecticut also has special Routes A and B.
Hey Brother!
Pairs of consecutive state routes that intersect:
- 2 and 3, Glastonbury
- 30 and 31, Vernon
- 31 and 32, Mansfield
- 63 and 64, Middlebury
- 68 and 69, Prospect
- 70 and 71, Meriden
- 71 and 72, New Britain
- 79 and 80, Madison
- 80 and 81, Killingworth
- 110 and 111, Monroe
- 153 and 154, Essex
- 164 and 165, Preston
- 173 and 174, Newington
- 175 and 176, Newington
- 182 and 183, Colebrook
- 190 and 191, Enfield
- 197 and 198, Woodstock
Consecutive junctions in the past:
No, we're gonna use it. Just leave it where it is.
These stretches of road were completed years before they opened to traffic:
- Route 25, Trumbull: built in 1975, connected in 1982
- Route 72, Plainville: the 6-lane section, built in 1975, opened in 1980
The unique, the most/least, and the weird
- SR 800 is the only unsigned route to overlap another numbered route (US 202 in Torrington).
- SR 706 is signed as westbound CT 34 in New Haven.
- SR 753 is signed as southbound CT 10 in Hamden.
- CT 4, 176, and 349 have dead ends (not at another signed route)
- CT 34, 83, and 149 officially go a little further beyond where you think they end (at I-84 and Route 2).
- CT 22, 110, 156, and 218 are all L-shaped, with horizontal and vertical sections nearly equal.
- CT 119 is the only route to have been defined and decommissioned three different times.
What others have said...
"We finish no freeway before its time."
-Benjamin F. Bunnell,
student, UMass
"He Who Is Transplanted [Kurumi], Sustains [the CT Roads site]"
