Driving Directions, Wallingford Pre-Season Tech

For those of you not familiar with CT, you may Mapquest that address for this weekend's pre-season tech and notice it's immediately off route 15/Wilbur Cross Parkway. Well, unless you're feeling awful rich this weekend, do NOT get on the Merrit Parkway with a trailer! It's illegal in CT to do so (see the regs below).

Instead, I recommend taking I-91 to exit 15, Route 68. At the bottom of the long hill (before the overpass) take a right at the light to get on Route 5 north. The karting place is about a mile from there. - GA

State Parkways

By law, a parkway is any state highway receiving special treatment in landscaping and marginal planting especially designed for and devoted exclusively to the use and accommodation of noncommercial traffic and to which access is limited through designated intersections. There are three designated parkways—Route 15 from New York to the Housatonic River Bridge in Milford (the Merritt Parkway), Route 15 from the Housatonic River Bridge to I-91 in Meriden (the Wilbur Cross Parkway), and U.S. Route 1 to Route 15 in Milford (the Milford Parkway).

Vehicles Prohibited From Parkways

By law, parkways may only be used by “noncommercial” vehicles. The prohibition does not apply to (1) taxicabs, (2) vanpool vehicles, and (3) service buses or two-axle, four-wheeled Type II school buses with gross vehicle weight ratings of 9,600 pounds or less provided (a) the service buses meet the State Traffic Commission (STC) maximum dimension limits and (B) the school buses are not more than 98 inches high, 84 inches wide, and 203 inches long. The law authorizes STC to determine through regulation the maximum dimensions and registration classifications of vehicles that are permitted on the parkways.

The STC regulations prohibit the following vehicles from parkways:

1. commercial motor vehicles;

2. trailers;

3. all towed vehicles except disabled vehicles being towed by a wrecker;

4. buses;

5. hearses when part of a procession or cortege;

6. vehicles bearing registrations other than passenger, camper, taxicab, vanpool, or hearse;

7. vehicles with combination registrations that have gross weights over 7,500 pounds; and

8. vehicles that, including load, exceed 24 feet in length, seven feet, six inches in width, or eight feet in height.