Abandoned Highway Stack in CT

wow neat stuff. Like the WW2 pics.

bentley429 said:

Brian do you think/know if there is some sort of a entrance to the roads? Sadly they don't look to straight.

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hahaha beat me to it

We have a bunch of half built abandoned highways and ones that were only partially completed here


I dont like looking at them because it pisses me off that my commute to work everyday has to suck because some *******s back in the 1960's did not have the political willpower to do the right thing and build our highways.

Instead they wasted billions ( some of the early funding was from the southwest expressway, inner belt and I-95 project) on that stupid big dig crap.. all that accomplished was to get rid of the above ground central artery.. The retards that run this ****hole I live in thought it was more important to beautify boston than to make sure people could get into boston in a efficient manner


Great now now the crackheads and liberal yuppie ****s that live in boston proper can look out their windows and not see the artery, while all the productive people in this state have to sit in traffic for hours on the parking lots of 128 and 93

WOW, driving from Boston --> NY every week is now a bit more interesting! I always thought those overpasses looked strange. I find this stuff interested as well, not sure why. I guess it's sort of the fascination of seeing something built and then left untouched/unused for years on end. Definitely going to look into those Boston roads, it's funny to think roads in such a congested area can be abandoned.

Sure the view is nice in Boston, you're right. But when it almost takes you 2 hours to get home, normally 20 min, because some knucklehead hit a power line above 128 in Peabody and shut it down it's tough to enjoy the view.

Mustang5L5 said:

We have something similar here.

I can't post pics though, so best I can do is coordinates to look it up

42*25'48" 71*01'02"

It was supposed to be the split off for I=93 that would have followed the coast more, but residents didn't want it. I've actually gotten to walk the abandoned road. Pretty cool to see something old and just left to rot.

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That's crazy, I drive Rt. 1 everyday and I had no idea that is there! I thought the only thing the Rt. 1/60 junction had to offer was The Squire

Mustang5L5 said:

+10000


You can fly through the tunnel in 5 mins...only to sit in traffic for hours because of the congestion north and south of the city because those highways are 1950's antiques.

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Yeah it's BS...


The highway plan that was designed in the 1950's with the inner belt and southwest and northeast and northwest expressways should have been built..

commuting to the boston area from the southwest is a nightmare.. The splits where you go from 95 to 93 or 128 in canton was made after they abandoned the plan to go all the way to boston with I-95 thats one of the fine examples of the cluster**** that was created by having only part of the highway system built

The thing that really pisses me off was the small amount of people that would have been effected had the highways been built.. They already leveled the major populated part for the southwest expressway ( now melnea cass boulevard) only about 700 families would have been displaced by the inner belt and maybe a few thousand more effected..

One of the major anti highway expansion people was tip o'neal the former speaker of the house.. He said that he was against breaking up neighborhoods to save somebody 15 min. to drive from new hampshire to providence or something like that..


WOW typical politician way to dance around the facts that this system would have been used mostly by massachusetts residents to get in and out of boston.

To top it off those now "long standing neighborhoods with families that been there for generations" have all moved away to the suburbs.. all that live in the effected areas now are illegal immigrants and other foreigners. So we now have strangled Massachusetts with traffic to keep DA HOOD intact


To avoid forcing these people to move they doomed the boston metro area to bad traffic forever, wasting countless gallons of gas and forcing industry to move out of the area...

BUT YAY we got a pretty bridge in boston and a stupid POS tunnel that is only slightly better than the overhead artery ohh and did I mention the POS leaks

Ohh and we also got the franklin line for the commuter rail... YAY because nothing is better after a long day at work then fighting with a homeless guy on the train because he peed on you.


WOW I love politicians.

How did this turn into a political thing?

Kumm3 said:

How did this turn into a political thing?

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Me bitching about how the highway projects were abandoned in massachusetts and how pissed i am about the effects 30 years later..


So nothing to see here move along now

Kumm3 said:

How did this turn into a political thing?

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As per teh LaserSVT, all threads lead to 0bama.

That city in Japan was on the series Life after People on the History Channel.

Cool thread! Being in road work, I know that stack cost about a stack of cash to build, all your money. If it isn't checked by the engineers who do that sort of thing, and often(every 6 mos to a year here in Illinois), and maintained like they don't want it crashing down on the road underneath it, thats just what its going to do. So you paid to build it, and you keep paying to make sure it stays there. Tax money working for you! Awesome abandoned planes and stuff, thread saved!

Pretty damn cool thanks for sharing.