The Route 25 expressway opens, from Route 8 in Bridgeport to Route 111 in Trumbull. Route 111 is extended over the old Route 25 to Route 15. Also, a new section of Route 8 freeway opens in Beacon Falls. The bridge reopens a month later, but the incident highlights Connecticut's failing infrastructure and inadequate maintenance program. Governor O'Neill institutes a 10-year rehabilitation program funded by a gas tax to fix and resurface bridges and roads.
Traffic cones sprout like weeds.
I-284 is cancelled. Not a good two weeks for 3di fans. Exits 92 through 106, a continuation of Route 15 exit numbering, are changed to exits 60 through 74, a continuation of I-84 exit numbering. Route 349 created, from SR 440 and part of SR 649 in Groton. Tolls removed from I-95, partly in response to a runaway truck that plows into a line of cars stopped at a Stratford tollbooth, killing seven.