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[blink55184]

If anyone has any insight into this, just curious---

I-684 crosses into Connecticut for about a mile.  Who is responsible for the maintenance etc. of this stretch of highway?  Does the CT DOT actually retain the rights to it?  Would NY DOT snow plows actually pick up their plows for a mile?

Thanks

[JayCT]

blink55184, on May 12 2008, 11:53 AM, said:

If anyone has any insight into this, just curious---

I-684 crosses into Connecticut for about a mile. Who is responsible for the maintenance etc. of this stretch of highway? Does the CT DOT actually retain the rights to it? Would NY DOT snow plows actually pick up their plows for a mile?

Thanks

Even though 1. 4 miles of I-684 runs through a portion of Connecticut and from a technical standpoint is a Connecticut Interstate highway, it is maintained by New York State DOT.  When NYSDOT was laying out this highway back in the early 60's, it realized that the best route to avoid Byram Lake would be for it enter a portion of Connecticut.  Rumor had it that Nelson Rockerfeller did not want it to go near his home to the west.   you can read a little about this road on the web site below.  I particularly like the idea of ConnDOT placing a $5.00 toll on it.  What a great idea.  

http://www.kurumi.co...ds/ct/i684.html

[Lowerdeck]

If you actually go down 684 in the Greenwich section, it looks and feels like a New York road, except for a small green sign saying entering and leaving Greenwich, Connecticut at the state line.  (It looks similar to the signs you'd see entering a village on a state road, one with the outline of Connecticut and the city name inside.)

The road has no connection to anything in Connecticut, not even an access road for emergency vehicles.

[blink55184]

Lowerdeck, on May 13 2008, 08:28 PM, said:

If you actually go down 684 in the Greenwich section, it looks and feels like a New York road, except for a small green sign saying entering and leaving Greenwich, Connecticut at the state line.  (It looks similar to the signs you'd see entering a village on a state road, one with the outline of Connecticut and the city name inside.)

The road has no connection to anything in Connecticut, not even an access road for emergency vehicles.

So since CT has jurisdiction of it in terms of fire/accidents/policing, these emergency personell and vehicles have to actually leave CT, pass into NY, to get onto the road they have jurisdiction over?

[Lowerdeck]

Unless New York has jurisdiction for stuff like that.

Exit 2 on 684 isn't that far across the southern state line.  Google Maps of area