Connecticut Roads - CT 136
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The southern half of CT 136 should be an east-west route (and not part of 136 at all), because even though it parallels north-south US 1, guess what - US 1 is basically an east-west route in CT, but constrained by the signage in the rest of the nation. So these NB photos are facing a variety of ways, including 180 degrees opposite north at times, as CT 136 follows a million turns through Rowayton and South Norwalk to East Norwalk. The wide shield is at Water St. in South Norwalk, and then CT 136 meets itself in a downtown East Norwalk circle on Gregory Blvd. Here, NB is 45 degrees to the northwest. You know what? I'm starting to think CT 136 shouldn't even be a route through here. I am most likely the only person to have ever driven it from Darien to Westport in one shot.
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Old guide signs NB and SB at the turn at Riverside Ave. in Westport.
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The William E. Cribani Bridge on Bridge St., which is where CT 136 NB turns in the photo atop this page. I somehow don't think that was the original name of this bridge.
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SB at the Bridge St. intersection, one of the few outline shields left in the state - they all seem to be for CT 15, too. To the right, Riverside Ave. quickly leads back to CT 33, which meets the Merritt Parkway/CT 15 at Exit 41.
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Continuing NB, not only are the East and West outdated, but they're on the wrong side of the shields - and correct old Connecticut style would be to have just one US 1 shield there, as well. US 1 went to North-South (like the rest of the country) many years ago, but most of western CT caught up before eastern CT. There are a few stragglers, obviously.
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NB and SB, farther north.
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To CT 15
Onto US 1
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