Merritt Parkway Traffic Map
The best part about this is the lack of trucks this is cars only.
Merritt parkway traffic map. Always check the traffic merritt parkway. For years a project on a 5 mile stretch of the merritt parkway in fairfield and westport has caused lane closures and traffic delays. Accident or traffic jam. Rocklandfoodjournal pearl river new york.
Latest traffic news crash on rt. Connecticut ct connecticut things to do. I ll try and look for official figures. Review highlights drove on merritt to stamford and new haven overall just a really beautiful ride.
202 in washington sends 4 people to the hospital closes road for hours litchfield 1 week ago. Columbus ohio 2 420 contributions 238 helpful votes. I was traveling in connecticut and a local friend took me on the merritt parkway instead of interstate 95. Merritt parkway innovative and widely copied american automobile highway built between greenwich and stratford conn in the 1930s the merritt parkway a limited access highway with two traffic lanes in each direction was contemporary with the german autobahn system the pennsylvania turnpike and other limited access highways but was outstanding in realizing the importance of aesthetics achieved through a combination of an almost continuously curving roadway and attractive wooded and.
This could mean that it is the high traffic volume of that corridor responsible for the higher accident rate and not the structure of the parkway per se. In the early stages of planning the future alternate route to the boston post road was commonly referred to as merritt boulevard a designation that john macdonald the state highway commissioner did not favor. The term parkway generally implied limited access and it carried the further implication that it was a nicely landscaped road hidden from outside view and closed to commercial traffic. Reviewed february 1 2020.
Kgilbert78 wrote a review jul 2018. I can t wait to go back in the spring when i take it again on. The bridges are absolutely beautiful. Also i know that the merritt parkway portion of route 15 does indeed have the highest accident rate of all limited access highways in connecticut but the accident rate is nearly equal to the greenwich to stratford portion of the connecticut turnpike.
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