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The parkway is two lanes in each direction and is known for the beauty and variety of its bridges, with no two being exactly the same. It also passes through a tunnel under West Rock near New Haven , which is the only road tunnel through a natural obstacle in Connecticut . Many of the trees along the parkway were planted by its designer. South of Milford, Route 15 is known as the Merritt Parkway . North of Meriden it ceases to be a limited-access highway, and is known as the Berlin Turnpike . Just north of the Housatonic River bridge it connects to the Connecticut Turnpike ( Interstate 95 ) and US 1 ( Boston Post Road ) via the 3-mile Milford Parkway . The Wilbur Cross and Merritt Parkways used to be a Toll Road . Together, they still contain five pairs of service areas along the length of the highway. The tunnel under West Rock is lighted solely using low pressure Sodium Vapor Lamp s, rare for the United States. |
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