Connecticut Route 104

	6.82 miles; from Route 137 in Stamford to the New York state line. The road continues across the border as Westchester County Route 3.
	In the 1920s, State Highway 104 followed today's Route 17 between Glastonbury Center and today's Route 66 in Portland. In 1932, Route 104 was commissioned as an 8.40-mile route from US 1 to the New York state line: Bedford Street (and Summer Street?), from US 1 to Long Ridge Road (today's Route 104) Long Ridge Road (today's Route 104) into New York USGS maps in 1947 and 1951 appear to show Route 104's southern segment shifted from Bedford Street to Summer Street. However, today these streets are an opposing one-way pair; if that was true decades ago, then Route 104 traffic would have used both. At some point later, Route 137 was extended south along Washington Blvd. to US 1. Route 104's southern end was truncated to Route 137, so now Route 104 extends along Long Ridge Road only.
	Does Route 104 perform the noble service of segregating the wealthy from the merely affluent, or old money from new? Hartford Courant columnist Denis Horgan fires this salvo (see "sources"): Put aside the trifling truth that there is barely a person west of Route 104 who gives a hoot for the rest of Connecticut or who would tell us that our car was on fire in the parking lot or that our necktie was dangling into the soup. Set apart the passing reality that those down in Connecticut's tail consider the remainder of the state to be a congregation of riffraff and field hands. Ah, class warfare.
	Horgan, Denis. "Helping Greenwich Millionaires is our Noblest Calling." Hartford Courant, July 18, 1999. Connecticut Department of Transportation. "Route change table.xls". Microsoft Excel spreadsheet file, received April 4, 2008.
	Route 104 Ends (Photos; Doug Kerr at state-ends.com)