Interstate 395 (Connecticut)

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Interstate 395
Auxiliary route of the Interstate Highway System
Length: 66.60 mi[1] (107.18 km)
Formed: 1968 (as Route 52)
1983 (as I-395)
South end: I-95/Conn Tpke in East Lyme, CT
Major
junctions:		 Route 2 in Norwich, CT
US 6 in Killingly, CT
US 44 in Putnam, CT
North end: I-90/Mass Pike/I-290/Route 12 in Auburn, MA

Interstate 395 (abbreviated I-395) is a 67-mile-long north-south interstate highway that begins at Interstate 95 in East Lyme, Connecticut and ends at Interstate 90 in Auburn, Massachusetts, where it becomes Interstate 290. The original designation for the freeway was Route 52. Route 52 was slated to become an extension of Interstate 290 before it received the I-395 designation in 1983.[2]

From its southern terminus to its intersection at Exit 90 in Plainfield, Connecticut with State Road 695, I-395 is also part of the Connecticut Turnpike.

Contents

[edit] Route description

Major cities
Bolded cities are officially-designated control cities for signs

From East Lyme to Plainfield, Connecticut, I-395 is part of the Connecticut Turnpike (the Gov. John Davis Lodge Turnpike). From Plainfield to Thompson, Connecticut, I-395 is named the The American Ex-Prisoner of War Memorial Highway.

 Please help improve this section by expanding it.
Further information might be found on the talk page or at requests for expansion.


[edit] Service plazas

In Connecticut, there are three Service Plazas that provide 24 hour gas stations and convenience stores. They do not have restaurants, but do have phones and rest rooms.

  • Montville - MP 8 - Southbound only between exits 79A and 79.
  • Plainfield - MP 35 - Northbound and Southbound between exits 89 and 90.

A State Police station is located on the northbound side of the highway in Montville in what used to be another Service Plaza.

[edit] Exit list

Exit numbers begin at 77 continuing those of the Connecticut Turnpike.

Town Exit # Mile Destinations Notes
I-395 begins at Exit 76 of I-95 as the Connecticut Turnpike.
See Turnpike exit list (exits 77-89) for exit information from Waterford to Plainfield.
Plainfield 90 35.5 To US 6 East - Providence Partial interchange: NB exit/SB entrance only.
I-395 leaves the Connecticut Turnpike.
Killingly 91 37.6 (NB)
37.9 (SB)		 US 6 - Providence, Danielson Partial interchange: No access from 395 NB to 6 EB or from 6 WB to 395 SB.
Split southbound into 91E and 91W.
92 38.4 (NB)
38.8 (SB)		 South Killingly, Danielson SR 607
93 41.2 Route 101 - Dayville, East Killingly
94 43.0 Attawaugen, Ballouville
Putnam 95 45.3 Kennedy Drive
96 46.1 To Route 12 - Putnam, Putnam Heights
97 47.2 US 44 - Woodstock, Putnam, East Putnam, Providence
Thompson 98 49.0 Route 12 - Grosvenor Dale Partial interchange: NB exit/SB entrance only
99 50.2 Route 200 - Thompson, North Grosvenor Dale
100 53.6 East Thompson, Wilsonville
Connecticut - Massachusetts State Line (MP 54.7/0.0)
Webster 1 1.3 Route 193 - Webster
2 3.7 Route 16 - Webster, Douglas
3 4.0 Cudworth Road - North Webster, South Oxford
Oxford 4 6.7 Sutton Avenue - Oxford, Sutton
5 9.0 Depot Road - North Oxford
Auburn 6 11.5 US 20 - Shrewsbury, Auburn, Sturbridge To Route 146
7 11.9 Route 12 North, I-90/Mass Pike Southbound exit only
ends at the I-90/I-290 interchange (MP 11.9)
Route and exit numbering continues on I-290

[edit] References

  1. ^ Route Log and Finder List - Interstate System: Table 2. FHWA. Retrieved on 2007-10-03.
  2. ^ "State Ordered To Lift Ban on Tandem Trucks." Hartford Courant, June 14, 1983. The article lists "I-290 (formerly Route 52)" as one of the highways the lifting of the ban applies to.

[edit] External links

v • d • e
Auxiliary routes of Interstate 95
Browse numbered routes
< I-384 CT I-684 >
< I-391 MA I-495 >