INTERSTATE 84 (EAST)

'Interstate 84' (abbreviated 'I-84') is an interstate highway extending from Dunmore, Pennsylvania (near Scranton, Pennsylvania) at an intersection with Interstate 81 to Sturbridge, Massachusetts, at an intersection with the Massachusetts Turnpike (Interstate 90). I-84 has mile-based junction numbering in Pennsylvania. New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts junction numbering is sequential.

Contents

Route description

Pennsylvania

New York

Connecticut

Massachusetts

History

The Road to Providence

Original route

Environmental concerns

Alternate route

Long range plans

I-86 relation

I-84 toll-free in New York

Widening projects in Waterbury

Future

Exit list

Pennsylvania

New York

Connecticut

Massachusetts

Auxiliary routes

See also

References

External links

Route description

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|PA
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|87
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|NY
|71
|114
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|CT
|98
|158
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|MA
|8
|13
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|Total
|231
|372
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Major cities 'Bolded cities' are officially-designated control cities for signs
★ 'Scranton, Pennsylvania' ★ Middletown, New York ★ 'Newburgh, New York' ★ Beacon, New York ★ 'Danbury, Connecticut' ★ 'Waterbury, Connecticut' ★ 'Hartford, Connecticut' ★ 'Boston, Massachusetts' (via I-90)

Pennsylvania

Interstate 84 starts in Pennsylvania at Interstate 81 in Dunmore, Pennsylvania, a suburb east of Scranton. I-84 starts as a concurrency with Interstate 380. After several miles, I-84 turns east, towards the New York border through Wayne County and Pike County. I-84 leaves Pennsylvania near Matamoras, Pennsylvania and Port Jervis, New York.

New York

Interstate 84 crosses the New York-Pennsylvania state line near the point where New York, Pennsylvania, and New Jersey meet, lying a mere 30 feet away from New Jersey upon crossing the Delaware River. Signs for the first interchange in New York, in fact, direct motorists to NJ 23. The junction connects to Orange County Highway 15 eastbound, and US 6 westbound. Local lore notes that 84 was originally to cross the tip of New Jersey, near High Point, but the state did not want to maintain so small a piece of highway so far away from the rest of its major highway network.
The New York section of the highway is missing junctions 9 and 14 (the latter was to be the north end of an expressway) in the sequence. A new junction is being built for a direct freeway link to Stewart International Airport near Newburgh, New York. This will be junction 5A. Legislation is currently underway to have New York interstate junctions renumbered according to a mile-based system.

Connecticut

In western Connecticut, I-84 is known as the 'Yankee Expressway'. Connecticut's Exit 1 offslip eastbound actually leaves the freeway while still in New York at mile 71.2. The state line is at New York state mile 71.46. All lighting and signage relating to the junction is maintained and owned by the State of Connecticut.
Connecticut has the longest designated stretch of I-84 of the four states the highway runs through. I-84 enters Connecticut in the city of Danbury. Within the city, it has a 3-mile concurrency with US 6, US 7, and US 202. US 7 and 202 turn north as a separate expressway at Exit 7, while US 6 heads east at Exit 8, parallel to I-84.
I-84 then heads through Waterbury where it has a junction with the Route 8 expressway. Interstate 691 ends at I-84 near Marion (in the town of Southington) at Exit 27. At Exit 33, I-84 intersects Connecticut Route 72, near New Britain, and has a concurrency with CT 72 for one exit. At Exit 38, I-84 has another concurrency with US 6 in Farmington. I-84 intersects Interstate 91 in Hartford at Exit 50, after which it then crosses the Connecticut River on the Bulkeley Bridge, overlapped with both US 6 and US 44. Interstate 384 begins at Exit 59; the US 6 concurrency ends at Exit 60 as US 6 heads east towards Manchester on a concurrency with US 44. Interstate 291 ends at Exit 61.
Once I-84 leaves Hartford, it is known as the Wilbur Cross Highway. The last exit in Connecticut is Exit 74, an exit for Route 171. I-84 crosses the Massachusetts border near Mashapaug (in the town of Union).

Massachusetts

The 'Wilbur Cross Highway' continues on Interstate 84 after the highway crosses the state line. I-84 in Massachusetts only has three exits in Massachusetts, before ending at Interstate 90, the Massachusetts Turnpike. I-84 ends at Exit 9 of I-90, which is located in Sturbridge, Massachusetts, 8 miles into the state, which is the shortest distance of the four states I-84 is designated in.

History

The Road to Providence

Interstate 84 was originally to head east from Hartford, Connecticut to Providence, Rhode Island.

Original route

The original route of Interstate 84 would have used present-day Interstate 384 to Bolton, Connecticut, then along a never-built section of freeway that would have connected to the US 6 bypass around Willimantic, Connecticut. Another never-built freeway section would have connected it to Interstate 395 and extended Interstate 84 onto State Road 695 in Connecticut, the easternmost portion of the Connecticut Turnpike in Plainfield, Connecticut. From there, it would have roughly followed US 6 through western Rhode Island to connect to the present-day US 6 freeway in Johnston. From there, a freeway from Olneyville Square to the Interstate 95/Interstate 195 interchange was briefly considered, but abandoned in favor of what later became the Route 6-10 Connector.

Environmental concerns

Though the route was basically set in stone in Connecticut, a lot of issues remained in Rhode Island, the biggest of which were major environmental concerns about how the freeway would affect the Scituate Reservoir, which is the main drinking water supply for Providence.

Alternate route

In an attempt to ease environmental concerns, an alternate route was briefly studied in Rhode Island that would have connected Interstate 84 to the present-day Route 37 freeway. This would have allowed construction of Interstate 84 south of the Scituate Reservoir. Major community opposition caused this plan, as well as Interstate 84 as a whole, to be scrapped.

Long range plans

In the 1992 long-range transportation plan released by the Rhode Island Department of Transportation, a freeway has been added along the original route of Interstate 84 that will connect to the CT 695 freeway on the Rhode Island/Connecticut border. [1]

I-86 relation

The section of I-84 between East Hartford, Connecticut (at the present-day junction with Interstate 384) and Sturbridge, Massachusetts (Interstate 90) was for a time signed as Interstate 86 (unrelated to present-day Interstate 86 in New York and Pennsylvania). Signs stating "I-84 Ends, I-86 to Boston" (eastbound) and "I-86 Ends, I-84 to Hartford" (westbound) were posted where the change took place. Exit numbering on I-86 was that of the road's predecessor, Route 15, in a sequence beginning on New York's Hutchinson River Parkway. Exits were renumbered to correspond with the rest of I-84 in Connecticut when the road was redesignated in 1984. The present I-384, intended to be I-84's easterly continuation, lacked any direct connection to the rest of I-84 at that time. For more information, see "The Road to Providence".

I-84 toll-free in New York

From 1991 through 2006, Interstate 84 in New York was a toll-free component of the New York State Thruway system. It was transferred by the state DOT to the Thruway Authority in the early 1990s in order to capitalize on that agency's steady revenue stream from upstate sources. It was returned to NYSDOT in October of 2006. (I-84's Hudson River crossing, the Hamilton Fish Newburgh-Beacon Bridge is under the New York State Bridge Authority. It carries an eastbound-only toll of $1 for passenger vehicles.)
In the early 1990s, the maintenance fees for I-84 in New York were transferred to the New York State Thruway Authority and the monies for that purpose came from tolls on I-190 in downtown Buffalo, more than 300 miles away. On Monday, October 30, 2006, the Thruway Authority voted to return maintenance costs to the New York Department of Transportation and the tolls in Buffalo are planned to be removed. The I-190 tolls are considered to be one of the principal causes of highway congestion in Buffalo. [2]

Widening projects in Waterbury

A widening project along the congested stretch of I-84 through Waterbury, Connecticut and Cheshire, Connecticut has been beset by cost overruns, delays, and alleged construction defects involving storm drains [3], as state and federal officials have launched criminal investigations stemming from this project. This episode has waned local enthusiasm for a proposed $2 Billion reconstruction of the Mixmaster interchange in downtown Waterbury [4] Cost estimates for the Mixmaster replacement have increased to $3 billion. [5] CT Attorney General Richard Blumenthal has begun a lawsuit against the contractor and an engineering firm in response to threats from the U.S. DOT to withhold funds from the project.[6] On May 18, 2007 the Waterbury Republican-American reported this area had defective light poles .[7] while Governor M. Jodi Rell released a scathing audit report of the construction disaster [8]

Future

I-84 does not yet have a direct interchange with the Thruway (Interstate 87), but a direct link is currently (2007) being built. Currently the connection uses NY 300. ^[1]

Exit list

Pennsylvania

County	Location	Mile	#	Destinations	Notes
Lackawanna	Dunmore	0		I-81 - Wilkes-Barre, Binghamton, NY	Western terminus of and Northern terminus .
		1	1	Tigue Street
	Elmhurst Township	2	2	PA 435 - Elmhurst	Northern terminus of PA 435.
		4	4	I-380 - Stroudsburg	I-84 and I-380 merger splits
	Jefferson Township	8	8	PA 348 - Mount Cobb, Hamlin	Park and Ride
Wayne	Sterling Township	17	17	PA 191 Newfoundland, Hamlin
Pike	Greene Township	20	20	PA-507 Wallenpaupack, Greentown
	Palmyra Township	26	26	PA 390 Promised Land State Park, Pennsylvania
	Blooming Grove Township	30	30	PA-402 Blooming Grove
	Dingman Township	34	34	PA-739 Lords Valley
	Milford Township	46	46	US-6 Milford
	Matamoras	53	53	US-209 US-6 Matamoras
		54	New York state line.

New York

County	Location	Mile[2]	#	Destinations	Notes
Orange	Port Jervis	0.00	Pennsylvania state line. Eastbound: speed limit 65 miles per hour.
		0.66	1	US 6/NJ 23 - Port Jervis, Sussex (NJ)	To NY 97.
	Greenville	4.76	2	Mountain Road
	Middletown	15.44	3	US 6/NY 17M - Middletown, Goshen
		17	Eastbound rest area.
	Wallkill	19.10	4E-W	NY 17 - New York, Binghamton	Future I-86 corridor.
	Montgomery	24	Westbound rest area.
		28.78	5	NY 208 - Maybrook, Walden
		Eastbound: speed limit 55 mph. Westbound: speed limit 65 mph.
	Newburgh	32.99	5A	NY 747	Stewart Airport access road; under construction.
		34.14	6	NY 17K - Montgomery, Newburgh
		36.54	7	NY 300 (Union Avenue) - To I-87/Thruway	Direct connection between I-84 and I-87/Thruway under construction.
	Newburgh	37.44	8	NY 52 west - Walden
		Western terminus of I-84/ NY 52 concurrency.
		39.04	10	US 9W/NY 32 - Newburgh, Highland	Westbound: split into 10N and 10S.
Orange-Dutchess county line		Newburgh-Beacon Bridge over the Hudson River. Eastbound: $1.00 toll.
Dutchess	Beacon	41.49	11	NY 9D - Wappingers Falls, Beacon
	Fishkill	Eastern terminus of I-84/ NY 52 concurrency.
		44.77	12	NY 52 east - Fishkill
		46.24	13	US 9 - Poughkeepsie, Fishkill	Westbound: split into 13N and 13S.
	East Fishkill	50.44	15	Lime Kiln Road (CR 27) - To NY 52
		52.64	16N-S	Taconic State Parkway - Albany, New York	Passenger cars only.
		55	Rest area.
Putnam	Kent	58.84	17	Luddingtonville Road (Putnam CR 43)
	Patterson	61.80	18	NY 311 - Lake Carmel, Patterson
	Southeast	65.44	19	NY 312 - Carmel, Brewster
		68.30	20S	I-684 - White Plains	Westbound: combined into a single exit 20.
			20N	NY 22 - To US 6/US 202 - Brewster, Pawling
		69.26	21	US 6/US 202 via NY 121 - Brewster, North Salem	Westbound: exit only. Eastbound: entrance only.
		71.46	Connecticut state line. Westbound: speed limit 55 mph.

Connecticut

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Town	Exit #	Mile	Destinations	Notes
Danbury		0.0	Begin Yankee Expressway section
	1	0.1	Saw Mill Road
	2	1.1	US 6/US 202 (Mill Plain Rd), Old Ridgebury Rd	Split westbound into 2A (Old Ridgebury Rd) and 2B (Mill Plain Rd). Welcome center on eastbound side.
	3	3.7	US 7 south – Norwalk, Ridgefield	>Danbury Fair Mall.
			joins
	4	4.1	US 6/US 202 west (Lake Avenue)	US 6/US 202 join eastbound and leave westbound
			join
	5	5.4	Route 37, Route 39, Route 53 – Downtown Danbury, Bethel	Route 37 not signed westbound
	6	5.8	Route 37 – New Fairfield	Westbound exit only
	7	7.3	leave
			US 7 north / US 202 east – New Milford, Brookfield	US 7/US 202 leave eastbound and join westbound
	8	8.2	leaves
			US 6 east (Newtown Rd) – Bethel	US 6 leaves eastbound and joins westbound
Newtown	9	11.4	Route 25 – Brookfield
	10	15.3	US 6 west – Newtown, Sandy Hook	US 6 joins eastbound and leaves westbound
			joins
	11	16.3	Route 34 – Derby, New Haven	SSR 490 to South – Bridgeport
Rochambeau Bridge Housatonic River crossing
Southbury	13	18.7	River Road	Eastbound exit only
	14	20.2	Route 172 – South Britain
	15	22.0	leaves
			US 6 east / Route 67 – Southbury, Oxford	US 6 leaves eastbound and joins westbound
	16	24.8	Route 188 – Middlebury, Southford
Middlebury	17	30.0	Route 63 – Watertown, Naugatuck	Eastbound exit only
Waterbury	17	30.4	Route 64, Route 63 – Middlebury, Watertown	Westbound exit only
	18	31.3	Chase Pkwy	Eastbound exit only SR 845
	18	31.7	West Main St, Highland Ave	Westbound exit only
	19	32.0	Route 8 south – Naugatuck, Bridgeport	Single interchange "The Mixmaster"
	20	32.0	Route 8 north – Torrington
	21	32.6	Meadow St, Bank St
	22	32.8	Baldwin St – Downtown Waterbury	Eastbound exit only
	22	33.4	Union St – Downtown Waterbury	Westbound exit only
	23	33.7	Route 69 (Hamilton Ave) – Wolcott, Prospect	Brass Mill Center
	24	34.8	Harpers Ferry Rd	Signed eastbound as Exit 25
	25	35.6	E Main St, Scott Rd	Westbound exit only. Eastbound Exit 25 is same interchange as Exit 24.
	25A	36.7	Austin Rd
Cheshire	26	38.1	Route 70 – Cheshire, Prospect
	27	40.0	I-691 east – Meriden
Southington	28	40.7	Route 322 – Marion, Milldale, Wolcott
	29	42.0	Route 10 – Milldale	Westbound exit only SR 597
	30	42.5	W Main St, Marion Ave
	31	44.3	Route 229 (West St) – Bristol
	32	46.2	Route 10 (Queen Street)
Plainville	33	49.0	Route 72 west – Bristol	Route 72 joins eastbound and leaves westbound
			joins
	34	49.2	Route 372 (Crooked St) – Plainville	Eastbound exit only. No access from Route 72 lanes.
	35	50.0	leaves
			Route 72 east to Route 9 – New Britain, Middletown	Route 72 leaves eastbound and joins westbound
New Britain	36	50.9	Slater Road
Farmington	37	53.2	Finneman Rd	To west
	38	54.3	US 6 west – Bristol	US 6 joins eastbound and leaves westbound. Westbound exit only.
			joins
	39	54.5	Route 4 – Farmington	SR 508 To UConn Health Center
	39A	55.5	Route 9 – Newington, New Britain
West Hartford	40	56.5	Route 71 – Corbins Corner, West Hartford	Westfarms Mall
	41	57.2	South Main Street	Route 173
	42	57.9	Trout Brook Dr – Elmwood	Westbound exit only
	43	58.4	Park Road – West Hartford Center	SR 501
	44	59.3	Prospect Ave, Kane St, Oakwood Ave	Hartford city line
Hartford	45	59.9	Flatbush Ave	Westbound exit only SR 504
	46	60.7	Sisson Avenue	SR 503
	47	61.0	Sigourney Street	Westbound exit only
	48	61.6	Asylum Ave, Capitol Ave	Capitol Ave signed eastbound only. To State Capitol
	49	62.0	Ann St, High St	Eastbound exit only
	50	62.3	Main St	Eastbound exit only
	50	62.6	US-44 west (Main Street) To I-91 south	Westbound exit only. US 44 joins eastbound and leaves westbound
			joins
	51	62.6	I-91 north – Springfield
	52	62.6	I-91 south – New Haven	Eastbound exit only
Bulkeley Bridge Connecticut River crossing
East Hartford	53	62.8	leaves
			US 44 east (Connecticut Blvd) – E. Hartford	US 44 leaves eastbound and joins westbound
	54	63.4	Downtown Hartford	Westbound exit only west
	55	63.4	Route 2 east – Norwich, New London
	56	63.4	Governor St – East Hartford	SR 500
	Begin/end HOV Lanes
	57	64.4	Route 15 south to I-91 south – Charter Oak Bridge, N.Y. City	Westbound exit only. Wilbur Cross Highway continues on Route 15
			Begin Wilbur Cross Highway section
	58	64.9	Roberts St, Silver Lane	SR 502, SR 518 Rentschler Field
59	66.4	I-384 east – Providence, Spencer St, Silver Lane
Manchester	60	67.8	leaves
			US 6/US 44 (Middle Tpke West) – Manchester	US 6 leaves eastbound and joins westbound
	61	68.5	I-291 west – Windsor	TO Bradley International Airport
	62	69.8	Buckland St	Westbound access to US 44 west must exit here. To Buckland Hills Mall.
	63	71.6	Route 30/Route 83 – South Windsor, Manchester
Vernon	64	73.0	Route 30/Route 83 – Vernon Business District, Vernon Center, Rockville	Split eastbound as Exit 64 and 65
	Begin/end HOV Lanes
	65	73.8	Route 30 – Vernon Center	Westbound exit only
	66	74.8	Tunnel Rd – Vernon, Bolton
67	77.3	Route 31 – Rockville, Coventry
Tolland	68	81.1	Route 195 – Tolland, Mansfield	UConn
	69	84.0	Route 74 TO US 44 – Willington, Putnam
Willington	70	85.6	Route 32 – Stafford Springs, Willington, Willimantic
	71	87.8	Route 320 (Ruby Rd)
Union	72	92.1	Route 89 – Westford, Ashford	Ashford-Union town line
	73	93.4	Route 190 – Union, Stafford Springs
	74	97.4	Route 171 – Union, Holland MA	Northern terminus of Route 171
		97.9	Wilbur Cross Highway continues into Massachusetts

Massachusetts

Town	Exit #	Mile	Destination	Notes
Connecticut - Massachusetts state line at Mile 0
Sturbridge	n/a	0.2	Mashapaug Rd	Not an exit, but a westbound-only entrance ramp from the southern end of Mashapaug Road/Old Route 15, at the location where the modern highway merges into the original Route 15/Wilbur Cross Highway right of way. This "secret" onramp is a popular shortcut onto the highway for locals and truck drivers.
	1	3.3	Mashapaug Rd – Southbridge, Sturbridge	This used to be Route 15 before it was decommissioned.
	2	5.3	TO Route 131 – Sturbridge, Southbridge
	3A	6.4	US 20 east – Charlton, Worcester
	3B	6.9	US 20 west – Brimfield, Palmer
		7.5	Massachusetts Turnpike Toll Barrier
		7.7	I-90/Mass Pike east – Boston	Eastbound exit only
		7.7	I-90/Mass Pike west – Springfield	Eastbound exit only Exit ramp as main line
Eastbound merges onto westbound at Mile 8.34

Auxiliary routes

I-484 was slated to be built below downtown Hartford (connecting with Interstate 91), but that highway was never completed.

See also

★ Interstate 84 (west)

★ New York State Thruway

References

★ 2005 Rand McNally "The Road Atlas 2005"
1. I-84 connection to thruway
2. NYSTA Interchange Listing with Mileposts

External links

★ I-84 in Connecticut @ Kurumi

★ bostonroads.com. Eastern Roads.