Interstate 84 (east)

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Interstate 84
Main route of the Interstate Highway System
Length: 231 mi (372 km)
West end: I-81/I-380/US 6 in Dunmore, PA
Major
junctions:		 I-87 in Newburgh, NY
I-91 in Hartford, CT
East end: I-90/Mass Pike in Sturbridge, MA
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Interstate 84 (abbreviated I-84) is an interstate highway extending from Dunmore, Pennsylvania (near Scranton, Pennsylvania) at an intersection with Interstate 81 to Sturbridge, Massachusetts, at an intersection with the Massachusetts Turnpike (Interstate 90). I-84 has mile-based junction numbering in Pennsylvania. New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts junction numbering is sequential.

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[edit] Route description

Lengths
mi km
PA 54 87
NY 71 114
CT 98 158
MA 8 13
Total 231 372
Major cities
Bolded cities are officially-designated control cities for signs

[edit] Pennsylvania

Interstate 84 starts in Pennsylvania at Interstate 81 in Dunmore, Pennsylvania, a suburb east of Scranton. I-84 starts as a concurrency with I-380. After several miles, I-84 turns east, towards the New York border through Wayne County and Pike County. I-84 leaves Pennsylvania near Matamoras, Pennsylvania and Port Jervis, New York.

[edit] New York

An overlook along I-84 near Port Jervis, New York. The road is also visible left center, immediately left of the large tree in the foreground.
An overlook along I-84 near Port Jervis, New York. The road is also visible left center, immediately left of the large tree in the foreground.

Interstate 84 crosses the New York-Pennsylvania state line near the point where New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey meet, lying a mere 30 feet (9.1 m) away from New Jersey upon crossing the Delaware and Neversink rivers. Signs for the first interchange in New York, in fact, direct motorists to NJ 23. The junction connects to Orange County Highway 15 eastbound, and US 6 westbound. Local lore notes that 84 was originally to cross the tip of New Jersey, near High Point, but the state did not want to maintain so small a piece of highway so far away from the rest of its major highway network.

The New York section of the highway is missing Exit 9 and Exit 14. Exit 9 was supposed to be a clover-leaf intersection with an arterial highway (Alternate 9W) which was on the drawing boards from the late 1950s until well into the 1970s, and appeared as "proposed" on most commercial and government maps produced during that period. The highway was designed to detour traffic away from the downtown City of Newburgh. Eventually, protests by homeowner groups representing neighborhoods which would have been destroyed by the arterial highway, together with soaring property values, forced the state to abandon the proposed highway and instead concentrate its funding on widening Water Street along the riverfront as an arterial (first designated as "Marine Drive" and subsequently as "Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Boulevard"). Tax maps showed a cloverleaf shaped parcel of property just west of the Gidney Avenue overpass in the Town of Newburgh as owned by the State of New York until the late 1980s. The property was sold and is now the site of a medical office complex.[1] To this day, there is no exit between Exit 8 and Exit 10, both in the Town of Newburgh.

Exit 14 was to be the north end of an expressway.[citation needed] in the sequence. A new junction, exit 5A, opened November 20, 2007[2] with a direct freeway link to Stewart International Airport in the Town of Newburgh. Legislation is currently underway to have New York interstate junctions renumbered according to a mile-based system.[citation needed]

[edit] Connecticut

Exit 31 sign on I-84 in CT
Exit 31 sign on I-84 in CT

In western Connecticut, I-84 is known as the Yankee Expressway from the New York state line to the Bulkeley Bridge in Hartford. Connecticut's Exit 1 offslip eastbound actually leaves the freeway while still in New York at mile 71.2. The state line is at New York state mile 71.46. All lighting and signage relating to the junction is maintained and owned by the State of Connecticut.

Connecticut has the longest designated stretch of I-84 of the four states the highway runs through. I-84 enters Connecticut in the city of Danbury. Within the city, it has a 3-mile (4.8 km) concurrency with US 6, US 7, and US 202. US 7 and 202 turn north as a separate expressway at Exit 7, while US 6 heads east at Exit 8, parallel to I-84.

I-84 then heads through Waterbury where it has a junction with the Route 8 expressway. Interstate 691 ends at I-84 near Marion (in the town of Southington) at Exit 27. At Exit 33, I-84 intersects Connecticut Route 72, near New Britain, and has a concurrency with CT 72 for one exit. At Exit 38, I-84 has another concurrency with US 6 in Farmington. The section of I-84 between Waterbury and East Hartford has many left-hand exits and entrances and sharp curves, which were built for a once-planned, but never completed network of freeways around Hartford.

I-84 intersects Interstate 91 in Hartford at Exit 50, after which it then crosses the Connecticut River on the Bulkeley Bridge, overlapped with both US 6 and US 44. Completed in 1908, the Bulkeley Bridge is the oldest bridge on the Interstate Highway System. Interstate 384 begins at Exit 59; the US 6 concurrency ends at Exit 60 as US 6 heads east towards Manchester on a concurrency with US 44. Interstate 291 ends at Exit 61.

Once I-84 leaves Hartford, it is known as the Wilbur Cross Highway. The last exit in Connecticut is Exit 74, an exit for Route 171. I-84 crosses the Massachusetts border near Mashapaug (in the town of Union).

[edit] Massachusetts

The Wilbur Cross Highway continues on Interstate 84 after the highway crosses the state line. I-84 only has three exits in Massachusetts, before ending at Interstate 90, the Massachusetts Turnpike. I-84 ends at Exit 9 of I-90, which is located in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, 8 miles (13 km) into the state, which is the shortest distance of the four states I-84 is designated in.

[edit] History

[edit] The Road to Providence

Interstate 84 was originally to head east from Hartford, Connecticut to Providence, Rhode Island.

[edit] Original route

The original route of Interstate 84 would have used present-day Interstate 384 to Bolton, Connecticut, then along a never-built section of freeway that would have connected to the US 6 bypass around Willimantic, Connecticut. Another never-built freeway section would have connected it to Interstate 395 and extended Interstate 84 onto State Road 695 in Connecticut, the easternmost portion of the Connecticut Turnpike in Plainfield, Connecticut. From there, it would have roughly followed US 6 through western Rhode Island to connect to the present-day US 6 freeway in Johnston. From there, a freeway from Olneyville Square to the Interstate 95/Interstate 195 interchange was briefly considered, but abandoned in favor of what later became the Route 6-10 Connector.

[edit] Environmental concerns

Though the route was basically set in stone in Connecticut, a lot of issues remained in Rhode Island, the biggest of which were major environmental concerns about how the freeway would affect the Scituate Reservoir, which is the main drinking water supply for Providence.

[edit] Alternate route

In an attempt to ease environmental concerns, an alternate route was briefly studied in Rhode Island that would have connected Interstate 84 to the present-day Route 37 freeway. This would have allowed construction of Interstate 84 south of the Scituate Reservoir. Major community opposition caused this plan, as well as Interstate 84 as a whole, to be scrapped.

[edit] Long range plans

In the 1992 long-range transportation plan released by the Rhode Island Department of Transportation, a freeway has been added along the original route of Interstate 84 that will connect to the CT 695 freeway on the Rhode Island/Connecticut border[3].

[edit] I-86 relation

The section of I-84 between East Hartford, Connecticut (at the present-day junction with Interstate 384) and Sturbridge, Massachusetts (Interstate 90) was for a time signed as Interstate 86 (unrelated to present-day Interstate 86 in New York and Pennsylvania). Signs stating "I-84 Ends, I-86 to Boston" (eastbound) and "I-86 Ends, I-84 to Hartford" (westbound) were posted where the change took place. Exit numbering on I-86 was that of the road's predecessor, Route 15, in a sequence beginning on New York's Hutchinson River Parkway. Exits were renumbered to correspond with the rest of I-84 in Connecticut when the road was redesignated in 1984. The present I-384, intended to be I-84's easterly continuation, lacked any direct connection to the rest of I-84 at that time.

[edit] I-84 toll-free in New York

From 1991 through 2006, Interstate 84 in New York was a toll-free component of the New York State Thruway system. It was transferred by the state DOT to the Thruway Authority in the early 1990s in order to capitalize on that agency's steady revenue stream from upstate sources. It was returned to NYSDOT in October of 2006. (I-84's Hudson River crossing, the Hamilton Fish Newburgh-Beacon Bridge is under the New York State Bridge Authority. It carries an eastbound-only toll of $1 for passenger vehicles.) In the early 1990s, the maintenance fees for I-84 in New York were transferred to the New York State Thruway Authority and the monies for that purpose came from tolls on I-190 in downtown Buffalo, more than 300 miles (480 km) away. On Monday, October 30, 2006, the Thruway Authority voted to return maintenance costs to the New York Department of Transportation and the tolls in Buffalo are planned to be removed. The I-190 tolls are considered to be one of the principal causes of highway congestion in Buffalo. [1]

[edit] Widening projects in Waterbury

A widening project along the congested stretch of I-84 through Waterbury, Connecticut and Cheshire, Connecticut has been beset by cost overruns, delays, and construction defects involving storm drains [2], as state and federal officials have launched criminal investigations stemming from this project. This episode has waned local enthusiasm for a proposed $2 Billion reconstruction of the Mixmaster interchange in downtown Waterbury [3] Cost estimates for the Mixmaster replacement have increased to $3 billion. [4] CT Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has begun a lawsuit against the contractor and an engineering firm in response to threats from the U.S. DOT to withhold funds from the project.[5] On May 18, 2007 the Waterbury Republican-American reported this area had defective light poles .[6] while Governor M. Jodi Rell released a scathing audit report of the construction disaster. [7] A number of DOT personnel were either fired or reprimanded following the scandal. Meanwhile the FBI and a federal grand jury are investigating the now-defunct construction company and the same DOT officials, which may eventually lead to criminal charges in the case.

[edit] Future

I-84 does not yet have a direct interchange with the Thruway (Interstate 87), but a direct link is currently (2007) being built. Currently the connection uses NY 300. [4]

[edit] Exit list

[edit] Pennsylvania

County Location # Destinations Notes
Old
Lackawanna Dunmore I-81 north / US 6 west to PA 347 - Binghamton Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
I-81 south – Wilkes-Barre Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
US 6 east – Carbondale Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
1 1 Tigue Street
Elmhurst Twp. 2 2 PA 435 south – Elmhurst Eastbound exit and westbound entrance. Left exit from southbound/eastbound
4 I-380 south – Mount Pocono East end of I-380 overlap
Jefferson Twp. 4 8 PA 247 to PA 348 – Mount Cobb, Hamlin
Wayne Sterling Twp. 5 17 PA 191 – Hamlin, Newfoundland
Pike Greene Twp. 6 20 PA 507 – Lake Wallenpaupack, Greentown
Palmyra Twp. 7 26 PA 390 – Tafton, Promised Land State Park
Blooming Grove Twp. 8 30 PA 402 – Porters Lake, Blooming Grove
Dingman Twp. 9 34 PA 739 – Lords Valley, Dingmans Ferry
Milford Twp. 10 46 US 6 – Milford
Matamoras 11 53 US 6 / US 209 – Matamoras

[edit] New York

County Location Mile[5] # Destinations Notes
Orange Port Jervis 0.66 1 US 6 / NJ 23 - Port Jervis, Sussex
Greenville 4.76 2 Mountain Road
Middletown 15.44 3 US 6 / NY 17M - Goshen, Middletown Signed as exits 3E (east) and 3W (west)
Wallkill 19.10 4 NY 17 – New York, Binghamton Signed as exits 4E (east) and 4W (west); future I-86
Montgomery 28.78 5 NY 208 – Maybrook, Walden
Newburgh 32.99 5A NY 747 - Stewart International Airport Opened November 20, 2007[6]
34.14 6 NY 17K - Montgomery, Newburgh
36.54 7 NY 300 (Union Avenue) to I-87 / Thruway Signed as exits 7S (NY 300 south to I-87) and 7N (NY 300 north)
Newburgh 37.44 8 NY 52 west – Walden West end of NY 52 overlap
39.04 10 US 9W / NY 32 - Newburgh, Highland Signed as exits 10S (US 9W south, NY 32) and 10N (US 9W north) westbound
Newburgh-Beacon Bridge over the Hudson River
Dutchess
Beacon 41.49 11 NY 9D – Beacon, Wappingers Falls
Fishkill 44.77 12 NY 52 east – Fishkill East end of NY 52 overlap
46.24 13 US 9 – Poughkeepsie, Peekskill Signed as exits 13S (south) and 13N (north) westbound
East Fishkill 50.44 15 Lime Kiln Road (CR 27)
52.64 16 Taconic State Parkway – New York, Albany Signed as exits 16S (south) and 16N (north)
Putnam Kent 58.84 17 Ludingtonville Road (CR 43)
Patterson 61.80 18 NY 311 – Lake Carmel, Patterson
Southeast 65.44 19 NY 312 – Carmel, Brewster
68.30 20S I-684 – White Plains, New York City Signed as exit 20 westbound
68.30 20N US 6 / US 202 / NY 22 – Brewster, Pawling Westbound exit is part of exit 20
69.26 21 NY 121 to US 6 / US 202 – North Salem, Brewster Westbound exit and eastbound entrance

[edit] Connecticut

Town Mile # Destinations Notes
Danbury 0.1 1 Saw Mill Road
1.1 2 US 6 / US 202 (Mill Plain Road) / Old Ridgebury Road Signed as exits 2A (Old Ridgebury Road) and 2B (US 6/US 202) westbound
3.6 3 US 7 south – Norwalk West end of US 7 overlap
3.8 4 US 6 west / US 202 west (Lake Avenue) West end of US 6/US 202 overlap
5.4 5 Route 37 / Route 39 / Route 53 – Downtown Danbury, Bethel Route 37 not signed westbound
5.8 6 Route 37 – New Fairfield Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
7.6 7 US 7 north / US 202 east – Brookfield, New Milford East end of US 7/US 202 overlap
8.4-
8.7		 8 US 6 east (Newtown Road, SR 911) – Bethel East end of US 6 overlap
Newtown 11.4 9 Route 25 – Brookfield
15.3 10 US 6 west – Newtown, Sandy Hook West end of US 6 overlap
16.3 11 Route 34 – Derby, New Haven Connection to Route 34 is SSR 490
To Route 25 – Bridgeport
Rochambeau Bridge over the Housatonic River
Southbury
18.7 13 River Road Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
20.2 14 Route 172 – South Britain
22.0 15 US 6 east / Route 67 – Southbury, Seymour East end of US 6 overlap
24.8 16 Route 188 – Middlebury, Southford
Middlebury 30.0 17 Route 63 – Watertown, Naugatuck Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
Waterbury 30.4 17 Route 64 to Route 63 – Watertown, Middlebury Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
31.3 18 Chase Parkway (SR 845) Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
31.7 18 West Main Street, Highland Avenue Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
32.0 19 Route 8 south – Naugatuck, Bridgeport
32.0 20 Route 8 north – Torrington
32.6 21 Meadow Street, Bank Street
32.8 22 Baldwin Street – Downtown Waterbury Eastbound exit and entrance
33.4 22 Union Street – Downtown Waterbury Westbound exit and entrance
33.7-
34.0		 23 Route 69 (Hamilton Avenue) – Wolcott, Prospect
34.8 24 Harpers Ferry Rd No entrance ramps; signed as exit 25 eastbound
35.6 25 Scott Road, East Main Street Eastbound exit is via exit 25 (Harpers Ferry Road)
36.7 25A Austin Road
Cheshire 38.1 26 Route 70 – Cheshire, Prospect
40.5 27 I-691 east – Meriden
Southington
40.7 28 Route 322 – Marion, Milldale, Wolcott
42.0 29 Route 10 – Milldale Westbound exit and eastbound entrance; connection is SR 597
42.5 30 West Main Street, Marion Avenue - Southington
44.3 31 Route 229 (West Street) – Bristol
46.2 32 Route 10 (Queen Street)
Plainville 49.0 33 Route 72 west – Bristol, Plainville West end of Route 72 overlap
49.2 34 Route 372 / Crooked Street – Plainville No westbound exit
50.0 35 Route 72 east to Route 9 – New Britain, Middletown East end of Route 72 overlap
New Britain 50.9 36 Slater Road
Farmington 53.2 37 To US 6 west / Fienemann Road
54.3 38 US 6 west – Bristol West end of US 6 overlap; westbound exit and eastbound entrance
54.5 39 Route 4 – Farmington Connection is SR 508
55.5 39A Route 9 south – Newington, New Britain
West Hartford 56.5 40 Route 71 (New Britain Avenue) – Corbins Corner
57.2 41 South Main Street (Route 173) - Elmwood
57.9 42 Trout Brook Drive – Elmwood Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
58.4 43 Park Road – West Hartford Center Connection is SR 501
59.3 44 Prospect Avenue, Oakwood Avenue
Hartford
59.9 45 Flatbush Avenue Westbound exit and eastbound entrance; connection is SR 504
60.7 46 Sisson Avenue Connection is SR 503
61.0 47 Sigourney Street Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
61.6 48A Asylum Street Signed as exit 48 westbound
61.6 48B Capitol Avenue Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
62.0 49 Ann Street, High Street Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
62.6 50 US 44 west (Main Street) to I-91 south West end of US 44 overlap
62.6 51 I-91 north - Springfield
62.6 52 I-91 south – New Haven Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
Bulkeley Bridge over the Connecticut River
East Hartford
62.8 53 US 44 east (Connecticut Boulevard) – East Hartford East end of US 44 overlap; no westbound exit; also connects with East River Drive
63.4 54 Downtown Hartford (Route 2 west) Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
63.4 55 Route 2 east – Norwich, New London
63.4 56 Governor Street – Downtown East Hartford Connection is SR 500
64.4 57 Route 15 south to I-91 south – Charter Oak Bridge, New York City Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
64.9 58 Roberts Street (SR 518), Silver Lane (SR 502), Burnside Avenue
66.4 59 I-384 east / Spencer Street, Silver Lane (SR 502) - Providence
Manchester 67.8 60 US 6 east / US 44 (Middle Turnpike West, Burnside Avenue) – Manchester East end of US 6 overlap; westbound exit combined with exit 62
68.5 61 I-291 west – Windsor
69.8 62 Buckland Street
71.6 63 Route 30 / Route 83 – Manchester, South Windsor
Vernon 73.0 64 Route 30 / Route 83 – Vernon, Rockville Eastbound exit 65 leaves I-84 on the same ramp as exit 64
73.8 65 Route 30 – Vernon Center Eastbound exit is combined with exit 64
74.8 66 Tunnel Road – Vernon, Bolton
77.3 67 Route 31 – Rockville, Coventry
Tolland 81.1 68 Route 195 – Tolland, Mansfield
84.0 69 Route 74 to US 44 – Willington, Putnam
Willington 85.6 70 Route 32 – Stafford Springs, Willington, Willimantic
87.8 71 Route 320 (Ruby Road)
Ashford 92.1 72 Route 89 – Westford, Ashford
Union
93.4 73 Route 190 – Union, Stafford Springs
97.4 74 Route 171 – Union, Holland

[edit] Massachusetts

Town Mile # Destination Notes
Sturbridge 0.2 Mashapaug Road Westbound entrance only; former Route 15
3.3 1 Mashapaug Road – Southbridge Former Route 15
5.3 2 To Route 131 – Sturbridge, Southbridge
6.4-
6.9		 3 US 20 – Worcester, Charlton, Palmer, Brimfield Signed as exits 3A (east) and 3B (west)
7.5 Toll plaza
7.7 Mass. Pike / I-90 - New Hampshire, Maine, Worcester, Boston, Springfield, Albany Eastbound exit and westbound entrance
To I-495, Route 128

[edit] Auxiliary routes

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Auxiliary routes of Interstate 84

I-484 was slated to be built below downtown Hartford (connecting with Interstate 91), but that highway was never completed.

[edit] See also

[edit] References

  1. ^ Tax maps available for review in the Offices of the Town Assessor and the Town Clerk, Town of Newburgh, 1496 Route 300, Newburgh.
  2. ^ NYSDOT Announces Opening of New Stewart Airport Access Road.
  3. ^ Anderson, Steve. Dennis J Robers Expressway (US 6). BostonRoads.com.
  4. ^ I-84 connection to thruway
  5. ^ NYSTA Interchange Listing with Mileposts
  6. ^ Drury Lane interchange opens in time for holidays.

[edit] External links

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Main Interstate Highways (multiples of 5 in pink)		 Interstate Highway marker
4 5 8 10 12 15 16 17 19 20 22 24 25 26 27 29 30
35 37 39 40 43 44 45 49 55 57 59 64 65 66 68 69
70 71 72 73 74 75 76 (W) 76 (E) 77 78 79 80 81 82
83 84 (W) 84 (E) 85 86 (W) 86 (E) 87 88 (W) 88 (E) 89 90
91 93 94 95 96 97 99 (238) H-1 H-2 H-3
Unsigned  A-1 A-2 A-3 A-4 PRI-1 PRI-2 PRI-3
Lists  Primary  Main - Intrastate - Suffixed - Future - Gaps
Auxiliary  Main - Future - Unsigned
Other  Standards - Business - Bypassed
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