- Wilbur Cross Highway
The Wilbur Cross Highway is the designation for the portion of old Route 15 from Wethersfield in Connecticut, through Hartford and Manchester, to the
Massachusetts Turnpike inSturbridge, Massachusetts . The highway was built in the 1940s before theInterstate Highway era. When I-84 from Hartford to Sturbridge (then known as I-86) was commissioned in 1970, it was routed along and co-signed with the Wilbur Cross Highway from East Hartford to the state line. In 1980, the planned extension of I-84 to Providence was cancelled and I-84 was then routed along the Wilbur Cross Highway instead. At the same time, Route 15 was truncated to end at I-84. The Wilbur Cross Highway was originally built as a continuation of theMerritt Parkway andWilbur Cross Parkway , but with the opening ofInterstate 91 , the planned segment between Meriden and Hartford was never built, andConnecticut Route 15 was instead routed along theBerlin Turnpike .Exit list
This is the list of exits for the Wilbur Cross Highway section of Route 15. Exit numbers and mileposts are those of Route 15. See the article on Interstate 84 for exits along the I-84 alignment.
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