Folks familiar with highway maps of the state of Connecticut are probably aware of an odd little freeway in southeast Connecticut that looks like it would provide a useful link between New London and Hartford…but for the fact that it abruptly ends in the middle of nowhere (at least by Connecticut standards of “nowhere”).
It sounds like that oddity might be crawling towards resolution. From the Courant:
After a decade of study and manipulation, the final environmental impact statement for completion of the Route 11 extension in southeastern Connecticut was released by officials from the Federal Highway Administration and a division of the Connecticut Department of Transportation.[...]
State officials first envisioned Route 11 in the 1950s as a way to link Hartford and New London along a modern highway. Construction was halted in 1972 because of budget shortfalls, with the road extending 7 miles from Route 2 in Colchester to Route 82 in Salem.
Design of the Route 11 extension could begin as early as 2008 and construction could begin by 2012. Current construction cost estimates range from about $850 million to $925 million.