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Originally Posted by grunewar
Move to DC/N VA, you'll have it so much better..,
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Been there as a tourist, and agree with your sarcasm, but at least you have a beltway that brings you around the most congested areas.
And don't you have a subway system? It was beautiful when we visited twenty-five years ago, but I hear that it's had some recent problems.
We only have a partial beltway, one almost has no other choice but to go straight through the heart of the city of Hartford.
The I-84 / I-91 junction was named one of the ten most dangerous stretches of highway in the nation in the 1980's.
We have lots of entrances and exits, more than I've seen on any stretch of the interstate highway system up and down the East coast, from Maine to North Carolina, and as far west as Philadelphia.
Left hand exits, and left hand entrances. Lots of them. How often do you see those anywhere else?
When the interstate highway system was first built under the Eisenhower administration, Beatrice Fox Auerbach, the wealthy owner Hartford's G. Fox & Co., the largest privately held department store in the nation, used her political influence to insure that exits off of I-84 at the junction of I-91 led right to the frontdoor of her store.
I-84 literally split the city of Hartford in half, with the north half now one of the poorest areas in Connecticut, completely separated from the main business district.
Like the Berlin Wall before Ronald Reagan tore it down.
Again, the traffic engineer who designed this junction back in the 1950's should be shot.