Rocky Hill
- Interstate 291 had only approximately 3.1 miles (5.0 km) constructed based on the original 1959 plan, which is now signed Route 9. The signed portion of I-291 was not in the original plan but was added in December 1968. The original plan was to only have a western loop around Hartford, from Interstate 91 in Rocky Hill to I-91 in Windsor and be complete in 1972. The southwestern portion was met with strong opposition that cited that the study was not well researched. Before the section was cancelled in March 1979, a short stub was constructed from I-91 westward towards Route 3, including a flyover from northbound I-91, seen here. The ramp was dismantled in 1999 when I-91 was widened from 3 to 4 lanes, leaving two strips of unused pavement.
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Famous quotes containing the words rocky and/or hill:
“Luckily for us, now that steam has narrowed the Atlantic to a strait, the nervous, rocky West is intruding a new and continental element into the national mind, as we shall yet have an American genius.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)
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