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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 in Sturbridge, Massachusetts . The highway was built in the 1940s before the Interstate 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 the Merritt Parkway and Wilbur Cross Parkway , but with the opening of Interstate 91 , the planned segment between Meriden and Hartford was never built, and Connecticut Route 15 was instead routed along the Berlin 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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