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Kurumi.com covers roads — history, news, maps and photography — with a focus on Connecticut highways and 3-digit interstates. Japanese language and culture are also explored. For more background, see About Kurumi.

What’s New

• Oct. 8: new Abandoned Highways page, for old sections of Connecticut routes that are no longer open to traffic, but might be walkable.
• Sept. 12: you've wanted to find out more about CT 146, right?
• Sept. 6: more history for US 44, including The Doom that (almost) came to Lakeville.
• Aug. 29: More 1930s information for CT 184.
• Aug. 22: More exit renumbering is on the way for CT 2, CT 3, CT 9, CT 11, and CT 17.
• Aug. 15: A little more history for CT 68.
• Aug. 9: How was Japanese written before hiragana and katakana? (For that matter, what about before kanji?)
• July 29: updates for CT 3: connector planning after I-86 was cancelled.
• July 25: updates for CT 34 and others.
• July 17: updates for CT 69, including an abandoned section in Prospect and Waterbury's first expressway.
• July 10: updates for US 7, including the Canaan freeway plan, the Ashley Falls bypass, and the 3-state Super 7.
• July 4: Once upon a time, there was a freeway proposal for CT 81; and the 51-mile 2-state Route 183 was born as two separate routes with coincidental numbering.

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