ConnecticutTowns: Bloomfield

Overview

Originally an agricultural town, mainly tobacco, Bloomfield is now a suburb of nearly 22,000 people, with four-lane boulevards and office parks. Route 218 (Cottage Grove Road) is the site of the Connecticut General Life Insurance office buildings: considered modern in 1957, and emblematic of the suburbs leaching retail and employment from inner cities, they are now under the protection of National Trust for Historic Preservation.

There are a few points of interest for the road enthusiast:

• I-291 was to have gone through, connecting the "Stack" in Farmington to I-291 in Windsor
• Route 189 used to be part of Route 9
• The tiny bit of Route 187/189 freeway in North Bloomfield, built in 1960, would have connected to I-84 exit 46 in Hartford
• A recent Route 305 corridor study called for extending the route west to Route 189

Links

• Google Maps
• Wikipedia

Present routes

• CT 178 to Windsor
• CT 185 to West Hartford and Simsbury
• CT 189 to West Hartford and Granby
• CT 218 to West Hartford and Windsor
• CT 305 to Windsor

Past routes

• CT 9 (-1963) now CT 189
• CT 184 (-1963) now parts of CT 178 and CT 187
• SR 505 (1969-1989) Tariffville Rd and Blue Hills Ave Ex
• SR 905 (1959-1963) now CT 305
• SR 906 (-1946) near Wintonbury Ave
• SR 910 (-1935) now part of CT 218
• SR 919 (1933-1935) School Street; now part of CT 178
• SR 921 (1935-1963) now CT 187, from Park Ave to CT 189

Cancelled routes

• I-291, freeway, cancelled in 1970s
• CT 189 freeway (also called the Woods River Expressway, cancelled in 1970s
• Freeway or expressway realignment of part of CT 218