Map of New London County in southeastern Connecticut with Route 2A highlighted in red | ||||
Route information | ||||
Maintained by CTDOT | ||||
Length | 9.91 mi (15.95 km) | |||
Existed | 1967–present | |||
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Location | ||||
Country | United States | |||
State | Connecticut | |||
Counties | New London | |||
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Route 2A is a state highway in the U.S. state of Connecticut. It is a 9.9-mile (15.9 km) mostly freeway alternate route of Route 2 that bypasses the downtown area of the city of Norwich and serves as the main access road to the Mohegan Sun casino.
Route description
[edit]Route 2A begins at the junction of I-395 and Route 2/Route 32 in Norwich. Route 2A travels south along I-395 for 3.7 miles (6.0 km) before separating as its own four-lane freeway at I-395 Exit 9 in Montville. It runs easterly for about 3.2 miles (5.1 km) with interchanges for Route 32 and Mohegan Sun Casino before becoming a two-lane freeway, after which it crosses the Thames River on the Mohegan-Pequot Bridge into Preston and ends at Route 12. After turning north onto Route 12 for a brief overlap, it resumes its easterly course, meeting with Route 117 in the village of Poquetanuck. From here, Routes 2A and 117 continue north as a concurrency to Route 2 where both routes end.
History
[edit]When the highway and bridge opened in December 1967, motorists were charged a 15-cent toll. The toll plaza located at the west end of the Mohegan-Pequot Bridge was removed in 1980.[1]
Junction list
[edit]The Connecticut Department of Transportation announced in May 2013 that exit numbers on I-395 and Route 2A would be renumbered from the then-existing sequential-based system to mileage-based numbering; the numbers on I-395 were changed from June to November 2015, the Route 2A numbers by March 2016. The old exit numbers were posted above the new exit tab for the mile-based numbers until 2017.
The entire route is in New London County.
Location | mi | km | Old exit | New exit | Destinations | Notes | |
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Norwich | 0.00 | 0.00 | – | – | ![]() ![]() | Western terminus; western end of I-395 concurrency | |
0.24 | 0.39 | 81 | 13 | ![]() ![]() | Signed as exits 13B (west) and 13A (east) westbound; exits 36-37 on Route 2 | ||
2.44 | 3.93 | 80 | 11 | ![]() | |||
Montville | 3.90 | 6.28 | 79A | 9 | ![]() ![]() | Eastern end of I-395 concurrency; exit number not signed westbound | |
5.30 | 8.53 | 1 | 5 | ![]() | |||
6.39 | 10.28 | 2 | 6 | Mohegan Sun Boulevard – Mohegan Reservation | To Mohegan Sun | ||
Thames River | 6.64 | 10.69 | Mohegan–Pequot Bridge | ||||
Preston | 7.05 | 11.35 | Eastern end of freeway section | ||||
![]() ![]() | Western end of Route 12 concurrency | ||||||
7.35 | 11.83 | ![]() ![]() | Eastern end of Route 12 concurrency | ||||
9.11 | 14.66 | ![]() ![]() | Western end of Route 117 concurrency | ||||
9.91 | 15.95 | ![]() ![]() ![]() | Eastern terminus; northern terminus of Route 117 | ||||
1.000 mi = 1.609 km; 1.000 km = 0.621 mi
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References
[edit]External links
[edit]Media related to Connecticut Route 2A at Wikimedia Commons