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Old 09-06-2014, 07:07 AM
 
Location: Northeast states
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State to comply with federal requirement to use mile markers

Interstate 395 will be the first highway in the state to comply with federal requirements for exit numbers to match up with mile markers.

Under the current system, the exits on the highway that runs between East Lyme and the Massachusetts border at Thompson are numbered consecutively, no matter how far apart they are.

The new numbers will reflect the mileage from the start of the highway in East Lyme. That means an exit will bear the number of the nearby mile marker, even if that means skipping numbers between exits.

Exit 77 in Waterford, which is two miles from the start of the highway, will become Exit 2. Exit 100 in Thompson will become Exit 53 because it's 53 miles from the start.

Kevin Nursick, spokesman for the state Department of Transportation, said people should start seeing the new exit numbers this winter.

Nursick said the Federal Highway Administration issued the new requirements in 2009 and noted that the signage on I-395 is 30-plus years old, has reached the end of its useful life and needs to be replaced.

"Because we were going to engage in a major signage upgrade, we had to comply with the latest federal requirements," said Nursick. "The consistency in exit numbering provides a safer ride. ... People know what to expect."

Work on the $5.5 million project has already started. A.M. Rizzo Electrical Contractors Inc. of Danbury has started to replace sign-support foundations and overhead support structures.

Nursick said businesses have been kept in the loop and are aware of the numbering changes.

And to help ease the transition, the new signs will also have the former exit numbers on them for at least two years.

The project is set for completion by the end of 2015.


http://www.theday.com/article/201409...309069922/1017
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Old 09-06-2014, 07:19 AM
 
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so, like the Garden State Parkway in NJ... only without the tolls every 10 miles.
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Old 09-06-2014, 07:41 AM
 
Location: Northeast states
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so, like the Garden State Parkway in NJ... only without the tolls every 10 miles.


Should they change exits for I-95, I-91, I-84 for etc
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Old 09-06-2014, 08:16 AM
 
Location: Florida
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That's weird!
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Old 09-06-2014, 08:56 AM
 
Location: Tolland, Connecticut
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Should they change exits for I-95, I-91, I-84 for etc
Completely unnecessary for I-95 between NY and New Haven. 47 miles, 47 exits (which is quite possibly THE reason for the 24/7 congestion....as we all know CT drivers have no clue how to properly merge). You won't find another major interstate in the country with that frequency of exits over that distance. The remainder has 'only' 46 exits within 74 miles (good highway engineering has exits no more frequent than one per every 2-3 miles).

I-84 has 74 exits within its 97 miles....which averages to an exit every ~ 1.3 miles.
I-91 has 49 exits within its 59 miles...which averages to an exit every ~1.2 miles.

Mileage-based signing is great. However, with our completely outdated major interstates, it isn't really helpful.

It does make sense on I-395, however. It would work well on Route 2 and Route 9 as well.
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Old 09-06-2014, 09:07 AM
 
Location: Florida
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Completely unnecessary for I-95 between NY and New Haven. 47 miles, 47 exits (which is quite possibly THE reason for the 24/7 congestion....as we all know CT drivers have no clue how to properly merge). You won't find another major interstate in the country with that frequency of exits over that distance. The remainder has 'only' 46 exits within 74 miles (good highway engineering has exits no more frequent than one per every 2-3 miles).

I-84 has 74 exits within its 97 miles....which averages to an exit every ~ 1.3 miles.
I-91 has 49 exits within its 59 miles...which averages to an exit every ~1.2 miles.

Mileage-based signing is great. However, with our completely outdated major interstates, it isn't really helpful.

It does make sense on I-395, however. It would work well on Route 2 and Route 9 as well.
Actually, I think mileage based signing could work in the entire state. In the event that there are multiple exits closely spaced apart, they could simply use a letter suffix to the exit number. For example, exits 14 and 15 in Norwalk are only about 800 ft apart. Exit 14 is 15.0 miles into the interstate, and exit 15 is 15.2 miles in. So, what they would do is convert the current exit 14 to become exit 15A and convert the current exit 15 to become exit 15B. You can see an example of this with I-95 in Maryland at exits 109A and 109B.
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Old 09-06-2014, 06:58 PM
 
Location: The Northeast - hoping one day the Northwest!
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I love the idea... I hope it will come to the other highways as well. I just moved back from Florida, where they did the mile marker for exits, and i find it very helpful. It's nice when you are traveling w/o a GPS to know how many miles you have to go before you reach your exit. I think it could easily work here. In Tampa, on 275 there were a lot of exits, and once you got north of downtown, there were all about a mile apart. However, between the downtown area and before the airport, there were A, B and C used since there were 3 exits w/ in one mile.
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Old 09-06-2014, 07:05 PM
 
Location: Rochester, NY
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so, like the Garden State Parkway in NJ...only without the tolls every 10 miles.
Dont give away any ideas...
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Old 12-08-2014, 04:34 PM
 
Location: New Canaan, CT
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There's an article about this in the Courant, and the commenters are angry, saying that this is an evil plot imposed by the liberal-progressive junta.

A Changing Road Map: CT Highways To Gradually Get New Exit Numbers - Hartford Courant
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Old 12-08-2014, 04:42 PM
 
Location: Texas
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There's an article about this in the Courant, and the commenters are angry, saying that this is an evil plot imposed by the liberal-progressive junta.
Funny, because every "red state" already has mileage-based exits, and most have had them for decades.

In the northeast, Pennsylvania and Maine already converted to mileage-based numbering. In Pennsylvania, they put up little auxiliary signs under each big exit sign with "Formerly Exit nn" for people with old information. Eventually they took those down.
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