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Nice crawling, the rigs look great! The woods look amazing! I subbed. Cheers!

Fn awful music!

Wow I’ve lived here since the mid 80’s and NEVER KNEW part of the bridge was still there!!!! How cool. Thanks for the video.

I remember buying a roll of duck tape there. When I got home I found out it was so old the adheasive had dried and it was no good. They sold junk.

My father told me they used to call route 9 a highway to nowhere now it ties into 84 so maybe the same will happen to 11 tied into another highway who knows

I remember Ruby Vine on the TV ads.

Great😂scenery🎉

Sorry to say the state took someone’s Ranch to build this Road. The square D Ranch was someone’s dream come true and the Route 11 went right through it. People living on that side of Salem had to deal with constant blasting through all that rock you see in the video. Route 85 then and now is a dangerous highway. I personally knew several young people who died on that road. I have been in the nursery when someone has crashed into someone else trying to turn into it. Beach traffic on Route 85 was backed up for miles behind a light in Chesterfield. I avoid that route as much possible. I looked forward to having that Route 11 which, it was suggested, could be built as a greenway. Now the cars that use it instead of Route 85 going towards New London get dumped at the traffic light in Salem. That traffic could turn right on red but also tended to claim the right of way when the light was green making it difficult, if not impossible, for people, who also had the green light to turn left onto Route 85. The solution was a roundabout, which only works if people slow down and yield the right of way. This works better in theory than practice. I avoid it like the plague. So, thats my memory of Route 11.

Wow. I barely remember Railroad Salvage. I remember that i went there, but not much else.

What a waste.

I'm surprised there aren't any roadblocks or gates to stop vehicles from traveling down those areas. This was 7 years ago so they might've put something there now to stop people from dumping because at the very end it looked like big piles of garbage like mattresses and couches and God knows what else. Still, pretty cool to see this video. Oh, I'll bet it makes for a fun snowmobile or ATV riding trail.

They started this when I was born in an early 70s did all this ideological information and my parents told me that road will never ever be completed in their lifetime.

Do you guys think they will decide to finish RT 11 one day?

That was interesting 👍

Im Center CT born and raised...and as beautiful as it is, the deeply ingrained provincialism and backward thinking really holds the state back in so many ways. I find it amazing that Texas, Colorado, Utah...even Ohio...get roads built in critical areas and connect long-planned routes with far more ease. No long drawn out EIR reports and legalized delays to serve nothing more than killing needed roads. There are FAR too many NIMBYs and environmental nutcases that stop critical infrastructure which would ease congestion in key areas, especially with small segments of unfinished expressways like Route 11. Imagine driving from the Hartford area down Route 2/11 to get to I-95/New London/ RI and the Cape area without having to endure the traffic lights on Route 9 in Middletown. Connecticut needs a process to finish these small segments of highway so that life can be made better for everyone, not just the rural do-nothings that hold us back.

Looks like a blast! Sad I haven't made it out to one of these get togethers yet. I know this probably isn't the place but do you know where the group went? I can't seem to find it anymore. Anyway great video, keep up the awesome work!

I'm going to assume that it's illegal to go down that road due to trespassing, but you knew your risks

This was a good WW2 reenactment event...but the US Army killed it for political reasons...

I've always wanted to take a look from that bridge to nowhere I've been under so many times. Thanks for making this, out of curiosity did anyone give you trouble for exploring up there? (I'm in Texas now so I won't be exploring myself either way.)

Cool crawler course you have. Nice place for friends to gather.

I was there

so i guess hitch hiking would be futile on this road then?

Well isn't that special! Just like all the northeastern part of the country, waiting for that big chunk of mulah to finish it up.

Back in the 60's this was the only store open on Sundays!

If the state still owns the right-of-way, they ought to go ahead and finish it. Found it on a map: it seems logical to go ahead and extend it on to I-95. Local politics may also stand in the way.

looks like its still well traveled considering the pronounced paths. Would be fun to travel it at least once. Curious where those exits were planned to come out to and where they currently lead. as far as the end of the road there were still two paths at the fork, so is it the official end and those paths were just made by atvs or something?

How many miles long

Part of my childhood was along the Thames in Gales Ferry, close to the Yale boathouse. The rail line ran through th neighborhood. Us kids used to walk south along the tracks to a candy shop called Cappy's...probably the last of true "penny candy." The house we lived in was 12 Bluff Road West, a cottage really (uninsulated); it had a small plaque on the south corner of the rear porch that read, "Windy corner 1938."

Nice view of parking lot. But nah cool video

I live in the "quiet corner". Maybe the hordes of ATV riders can move their riding destinations from here to Rt 11.

That music tho

wrki-fm i95 morning show mentioned this rd a few days ago. i had forgotten abt it

So too expensive in the 70s at $55 million.. so let's keep waiting to the 2000s where the cost is $1billion or almost 20 times the original cost. Ah inflation and red tape!

I've lived in colchester for almost 30 years and have always wanted do drive across that bridge and explore. This is great!

The finished part is the perfect place to learn how to get used to highway riding if someone was just learning how to ride a motorcycle.

Can someone please make a terrifying movie on this?...

My dad and I used to drive our ATVs up there, it almost feels like chernobyl minus the radiation lmao. The icecream barn right by the bridge has to be the best icecream in CT btw.

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David, Ruby's nephew told me once about the who deal with their stores....They were a big deal at the time...

So, do we blame this on Ella or Bill the bartender?

I'm find it both cool and hysterical that you did this! Amazing that after all that work, they just stopped. All they had to do was finish paving it! It shouldn't have been that hard to do.

Awesome video Joe

Take the ride and stop at Salem Valley Farms Ice Cream for your reward when the highway ends. The best

Highway to nowhere??? Obviously you haven't tried salem valley farms icecream?

Looking good everyone

Pretty interesting!

What’s the rush to finish it? I grew up near there and it was abandoned a mere 50 years ago!

Was just there yesterday, everything is way different than seen in this video. You can’t drive back there anymore you have to walk on foot and sneak in. The state now put up a sign saying no tresspassing. It’s all grown up back there, looks like nobody has been back there in years.

My grandfather was 26th Infantry Division 104th Regiment in WWII. I am trying to find more information on him if you guys have any reliable resources. He was a Bronze Star recipient and earned his Purple Heart. Please let me know if you know of anywhere I may be able to research his legacy. Thank you!

I always thought that interstate 84 was road to nowhere in Connecticut lol