Connecticut Roads - I-384
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I-384 was meant to be I-84, extending east toward Providence. It's the largest of the three sections of freeway built; the other two are the Willimantic Bypass on US 6 and the US 6 freeway in Rhode Island. I-84 may also have used the end of the Connecticut Turnpike, which is now numbered secret CT 695. Once it became clear I-84 wouldn't fly, it was switched with I-86 (current I-84 from I-384 into Massachusetts), and this became 384.
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The first EB shield, as soon as all the traffic for I-384 has been assembled into one roadway and before it even leaves the I-84 mainline. (The EB shield at the top of the page is still visible from the mainline, too.) I separate this here so that you can marvel at the CT-style 3, which is becoming a rarity on signs. In fact, given how hard it is to spot these, I wonder if this is an old spec that a contractor had, or if it's actually an original 1970's I-384 shield that happened not to weather.
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That's all of the eastbound signage; sorry for the blurriness, but a thunderstorm was looming and making lighting miserable. The photo called eend.jpg (i.e. the eastern end of I-384) says the expressway ends in half a mile. When US 6/44 join the freeway, I-384 officially ends, but that last half-mile of freeway would have become part of I-84.
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And all of the westbound signage, except the non-button copy signs leading up to Exit 1. Doug Kerr was kind enough to provide an example of the latter, the final photo in the run.
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Charter Oak St. WB approaching CT 83 at I-384 Exit 3.
Onto I-84
To I-291
Exit 3 to CT 83
Onto US 44
Onto US 6
I-384 on Steven Anderson's nycroads.com
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