Route 127 is a state highway in southwestern
Connecticut
Connecticut () is the southernmost state in the New England region of the Northeastern United States. It is bordered by Rhode Island to the east, Massachusetts to the north, New York to the west, and Long Island Sound to the south. Its capita ...
, running entirely from
Bridgeport
Bridgeport is the most populous city and a major port in the U.S. state of Connecticut. With a population of 148,654 in 2020, it is also the fifth-most populous in New England. Located in eastern Fairfield County at the mouth of the Pequonnoc ...
to
Trumbull. It serves as a minor arterial, connecting all four major limited access highways in the Bridgeport area.
Route description
Route 127 begins at an intersection with
Route 130 in southeastern Bridgeport and almost immediately intersects
I-95
Interstate 95 (I-95) is the main north–south Interstate Highway on the East Coast of the United States, running from US Route 1 (US 1) in Miami, Florida, to the Houlton–Woodstock Border Crossing between Maine and the Canadia ...
. It then heads north, roughly parallel to the
Pequonnock River
The Pequonnock River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed 2011-04-01. waterway in eastern Fairfield County, Connecticut. Its watershed is located in five communities, w ...
and
Route 8, into Trumbull. It intersects Route 8 just north of the Bridgeport-Trumbull town line and continues north, then turns northwest to intersect
Route 15 and
Route 25 in rapid succession. It then continues northwest to end at an intersection with
Route 111 in Trumbull.
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History
White Plains Road was laid out to Pulpit Rock, in present-day Trumbull, in 1705.
Route 127 was commissioned in 1932 and originally ran from US 1
U.S. Route 1 or U.S. Highway 1 (US 1) is a major north–south United States Numbered Highway that serves the East Coast of the United States. It runs from Key West, Florida, north to Fort Kent, Maine, at the Canadian border, making ...
to its current northern terminus. At an undetermined time before 1978, the southern terminus was truncated to the Huntington Turnpike (SR 730). It was extended south to US 1 in 1992, then further south to Route 130 in 1995.Connecticut Routes, Route 127
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Major intersections
References
External links
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Transportation in Fairfield County, Connecticut
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Trumbull, Connecticut
Transportation in Bridgeport, Connecticut