Interstate 95 (I-95) is an
Interstate Highway
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on the
east coast of the United States
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, connecting
Florida
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to
Maine
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. Within the state of
New Hampshire
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, it serves the
Seacoast Region and is a
toll road
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named the Blue Star Turnpike or New Hampshire Turnpike. The turnpike is maintained by the
New Hampshire Department of Transportation
The New Hampshire Department of Transportation (NHDOT) is a government agency of the U.S. state of New Hampshire. The Commissioner of NHDOT is Victoria Sheehan. The main office of the NHDOT is located in the J. O. Morton Building in Concord.
F ...
(NHDOT)
Bureau of Turnpikes and has a single
toll plaza
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near
Hampton
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*Hampton bioregion, an IBRA biogeographic region in Western Australia
*Hampton, New South Wales
*Hampton, Queensland, a town in the Toowoomba Region
* Hampton, Victoria
Canada
* Hampton, New Brunswick
*Ha ...
.
The Blue Star Turnpike begins near the
state line in the town of
Seabrook and travels north through Hampton and its neighboring municipalities. It then continues around
Portsmouth
Portsmouth ( ) is a port and city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire in southern England. The city of Portsmouth has been a unitary authority since 1 April 1997 and is administered by Portsmouth City Council.
Portsmouth is the most dens ...
and crosses the
Piscataqua River Bridge
The Piscataqua River Bridge is a through arch bridge that crosses the Piscataqua River, connecting Portsmouth, New Hampshire with Kittery, Maine. Carrying six lanes of Interstate 95, the bridge is the third modern span and first fixed crossing of ...
at the Maine state line, where it becomes the
Maine Turnpike
Interstate 95 (I-95) in the US state of Maine is a highway running from the New Hampshire state line in Kittery, to the Canadian border in Houlton. It is the only two-digit Interstate Highway in Maine. In 2004, the highway's route between Por ...
. New Hampshire's portion of I-95 is the shortest of any state that the Interstate passes through; the highway is the main thoroughfare between urban areas in Massachusetts and points in Maine.
Construction of the turnpike was approved in 1947 and began a year later in an effort to bypass congestion on
U.S. Route 1 (US 1), the main seacoast highway. It opened to traffic on June 24, 1950, and was later designated as part of I-95 in 1957. The northernmost section in Portsmouth, connecting to the Maine Turnpike, was left incomplete until the Piscataqua River Bridge opened in 1972.
Route description
I-95 crosses into New Hampshire in the town of
Seabrook, north of
Salisbury, Massachusetts
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. The crossing includes a pair of
welcome center
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Types of visitor center
A visi ...
s for the respective states and a southbound ramp serving a connector to
. The highway then intersects
New Hampshire Route 107
New Hampshire Route 107 is a north–south state highway in eastern New Hampshire. It connects Laconia in the Lakes Region with Seabrook on the Atlantic coast. The southern terminus of NH 107 is at U.S. Route 1 in Seabrook near the entrance to ...
(NH 107), which serves Seabrook and the
Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant
The Seabrook Nuclear Power Plant, more commonly known as Seabrook Station, is a nuclear power plant located in Seabrook, New Hampshire, United States, approximately north of Boston and south of Portsmouth. It has operated since 1990. With its ...
, at exit 1.
The freeway continues as a
toll road
A toll road, also known as a turnpike or tollway, is a public or private road (almost always a controlled-access highway in the present day) for which a fee (or ''toll'') is assessed for passage. It is a form of road pricing typically implemented ...
, named the Blue Star Turnpike and commonly known as the New Hampshire Turnpike, and parallels
U.S. Route 1
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(US 1) through the inland areas of southeastern New Hampshire's
Seacoast Region.
In
Hampton Falls
Hampton Falls (formerly the "Third Parish and Hampton Falls") is a town in Rockingham County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 2,403 at the 2020 census.
History
The land of Hampton Falls was first settled by Europeans in 1638, ...
, I-95 crosses over
NH 84 and
NH 88 without connecting interchanges and serves a pair of state-run
liquor store
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s operated by the
New Hampshire Liquor Commission
The New Hampshire Liquor Commission is a government agency of the U.S. state of New Hampshire. The commission regulates the sale of alcoholic beverages in New Hampshire, one of 18 alcoholic beverage control states.
The commission became operat ...
.
The northbound Hampton outlet is considered the state's
flagship store
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, with annual sales of $33.5 million, and largely serves out-of-state customers.
The turnpike passes through the town of
Hampton
Hampton may refer to:
Places Australia
*Hampton bioregion, an IBRA biogeographic region in Western Australia
*Hampton, New South Wales
*Hampton, Queensland, a town in the Toowoomba Region
* Hampton, Victoria
Canada
* Hampton, New Brunswick
*Ha ...
, where it crosses under
NH 27 and reaches its sole
toll plaza
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at exit 2, an interchange with
NH 101.
NH 101 provides connections from the turnpike to
Exeter
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In Roman Britain, Exeter was established as the base of Legio II Augusta under the personal comm ...
and
Manchester
Manchester () is a city in Greater Manchester, England. It had a population of 552,000 in 2021. It is bordered by the Cheshire Plain to the south, the Pennines to the north and east, and the neighbouring city of Salford to the west. The t ...
.
I-95 then continues northeast through the towns of
North Hampton and
Greenland
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and crosses over several highways before reaching its next interchange. The turnpike enters the city of
Portsmouth
Portsmouth ( ) is a port and city in the ceremonial county of Hampshire in southern England. The city of Portsmouth has been a unitary authority since 1 April 1997 and is administered by Portsmouth City Council.
Portsmouth is the most dens ...
and intersects
NH 33 near the
city's international airport. After passing
Portsmouth Regional Hospital
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Portsmouth is the most dense ...
, I-95 intersects the
Spaulding Turnpike
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(
US 4/
NH 16) and
U.S. Route 1 Bypass (US 1 Byp.) via ramps to the
Portsmouth Circle. The freeway travels through the residential neighborhoods of western Portsmouth and intersects Market Street before crossing over the
Piscataqua River Bridge
The Piscataqua River Bridge is a through arch bridge that crosses the Piscataqua River, connecting Portsmouth, New Hampshire with Kittery, Maine. Carrying six lanes of Interstate 95, the bridge is the third modern span and first fixed crossing of ...
into
Maine
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, where it becomes the
Maine Turnpike
Interstate 95 (I-95) in the US state of Maine is a highway running from the New Hampshire state line in Kittery, to the Canadian border in Houlton. It is the only two-digit Interstate Highway in Maine. In 2004, the highway's route between Por ...
.
The New Hampshire section of the highway is long, the shortest of any state on I-95, which traverses the entire
U.S. East Coast
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from
Florida
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to Maine.
It is entirely located within
Rockingham County and is generally eight lanes wide.
The
New Hampshire Department of Transportation
The New Hampshire Department of Transportation (NHDOT) is a government agency of the U.S. state of New Hampshire. The Commissioner of NHDOT is Victoria Sheehan. The main office of the NHDOT is located in the J. O. Morton Building in Concord.
F ...
, which maintains the highway through its
Bureau of Turnpikes,
measures traffic volumes at various points that are expressed in terms of
annual average daily traffic
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. Traffic volumes on I-95 within the state in 2015 ranged from a minimum of 63,000 vehicles southwest of Portsmouth to a maximum of 98,000 vehicles near the Spaulding Turnpike. The corridor is also served by several private
intercity bus operators and public transit systems, including the
Cooperative Alliance for Seacoast Transportation. During the summer months, the highway peaks at 125,000 daily vehicles and becomes routinely congested as weekend vacationers from the
Greater Boston
Greater Boston is the metropolitan region of New England encompassing the municipality of Boston (the capital of the U.S. state of Massachusetts and the most populous city in New England) and its surrounding areas. The region forms the northern ar ...
area travel to destinations in New Hampshire and Maine.
History
Predecessors
The earliest roads traversing New Hampshire's Seacoast were constructed in the 17th century to connect Hampton to the
Massachusetts Colony
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. They were later upgraded in the 18th century for
stagecoach
A stagecoach is a four-wheeled public transport coach used to carry paying passengers and light packages on journeys long enough to need a change of horses. It is strongly sprung and generally drawn by four horses although some versions are draw ...
service and replaced by a
toll road
A toll road, also known as a turnpike or tollway, is a public or private road (almost always a controlled-access highway in the present day) for which a fee (or ''toll'') is assessed for passage. It is a form of road pricing typically implemented ...
named "The Turnpike" that operated from 1810 to 1826.
The toll road was purchased by the towns of Hampton and Hampton Falls in 1826 and renamed "Lafayette Road" for the
Marquis de Lafayette
Marie-Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de La Fayette (6 September 1757 – 20 May 1834), known in the United States as Lafayette (, ), was a French aristocrat, freemason and military officer who fought in the American Revoluti ...
in 1830. These roads were later acquired by the state government to form a modern highway system for automobiles and was assigned the designation of New Hampshire Route 1 in 1909.
Route 1 was succeeded by US 1 in 1926, which was established as part of a
national numbered highway system. The highway was paved from 1929 to 1931 and later upgraded with
traffic signal
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Traffic light ...
s to handle increased use.
Heavy congestion on US 1, particularly tourists from Massachusetts traveling to destinations in New Hampshire and Maine, led to proposals in the 1930s for a bypass that would connect with a new bridge over the Piscataqua River near Portsmouth.
The US 1 Bypass was opened in 1940 as a
divided highway
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with grade separation and traveled around Portsmouth, connecting to Maine via a
new lift bridge. The highway and bridge cost $3 million to construct and were partially funded by the federal government as a
New Deal
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project.
Turnpike construction
A modern turnpike through the Seacoast Region was proposed in the early 1940s as part of a New England regional network that would connect with the
Maine Turnpike
Interstate 95 (I-95) in the US state of Maine is a highway running from the New Hampshire state line in Kittery, to the Canadian border in Houlton. It is the only two-digit Interstate Highway in Maine. In 2004, the highway's route between Por ...
, which had been announced in 1941 and opened in 1947. The proposal was opposed from seacoast towns, who feared that traffic would bypass New Hampshire's beaches and instead favored widening US 1.
The state legislature established the New Hampshire Turnpike Authority in 1947 to oversee construction of a turnpike with four lanes and limited exits. It would be funded with a $7.5 million
bond issue that would be retired by 1977.
The state government formally approved the construction of the turnpike in February 1948, setting up a tollway commission to purchase and condemn land for
right-of-way
Right of way is the legal right, established by grant from a landowner or long usage (i.e. by prescription), to pass along a specific route through property belonging to another.
A similar ''right of access'' also exists on land held by a gov ...
. Among the affected landowners was then-Governor
Charles M. Dale, who opted to donate part of his North Hampton farm instead of accepting a payment from the state government. A $5.25 million bid from a
Connecticut
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-based construction firm was accepted in October 1948 and construction on the turnpike began the following month. Early construction was slowed by a temporary
injunction requested by the
New Hampshire Gas and Electric Company to allow for the relocation of utility poles in the highway's right-of-way.
State highway engineer Daniel Dickenson resigned from their positions in August 1949, following an investigation ordered by governor
Sherman Adams
Llewelyn Sherman Adams (January 8, 1899 – October 27, 1986) was an American businessman and politician, best known as White House Chief of Staff for President Dwight D. Eisenhower, the culmination of an 18-year political career that also incl ...
into the awarding of a design contract for the turnpike project. Dickenson received payments from a former business associate, Charles Morse, who was an associate with the engineering firm that designed portions of the tollway for an inflated price.
Morse was later fired from his position by
Frank Merrill
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, the new state highway commissioner following the resignation of Frederic E. Everett. Amid the investigations, the state legislature approved an additional $280,000 in contingency funds that would also be used to expand an interchange on the existing US 1 Bypass.
Major work on the toll road's main elements, including 14 overpasses, three bridges, and an
traffic circle
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in Portsmouth, was mostly completed by December 1949. The turnpike would comprise four lanes on a
macadam asphalt surface with
granite
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curbs, shoulders, and a grass median.
The project also included a provisional interchange near Hampton to connect with a future expressway serving Exeter (now NH 101).
An additional spur route connecting the south end of the highway to US 1 in Salisbury, Massachusetts, was constructed by the
Massachusetts Department of Public Works
The Massachusetts Highway Department (abbreviated MassHighway) was the highway department in the U.S. state of Massachusetts from 1991 until the formation of the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) in 2009.
The responsibilities ...
.
The
Blue Star Turnpike was dedicated on June 24, 1950, by Governor Adams and local officials in a ceremony attended by 5,000 people. It was immediately opened to traffic for a day of toll-free use and carried 12,416 vehicles on its first day. The initial toll was 10 to 15 cents for automobiles and 20 to 50 cents for trucks, and the speed limit was set at .
The turnpike had no services and was monitored by
state police
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and highway workers, offering free vehicle towing and tire changes.
It cost $7.4 million to construct, resulting in a $400,000 surplus that was returned to the state government by the turnpike authority. Business owners in seacoast towns along US 1 reported major losses in sales following the turnpike's opening as 60 percent of traffic bypassed various towns.
Traffic on US 1 later recovered to its original volume by the end of 1951.
Connections and extension
The Blue Star Turnpike was one of several toll roads grandfathered into the
Interstate Highway System
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and designated as part of I-95 in 1957. The designation also included the Maine Turnpike to the north as well as a new freeway bypassing US 1 in northeastern Massachusetts that opened in September 1954 and connected
Boston
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to the Blue Star Turnpike near Seabrook. The northern end at the
Portsmouth Traffic Circle
The Portsmouth Traffic Circle is a four-point rotary in the city of Portsmouth, New Hampshire.
Description
The southern exit of the circle provides access to Interstate 95 north and south, although only northbound I-95 traffic enters here. The e ...
had an indirect connection to the Maine Turnpike, but was modified to include ramps to the new
Spaulding Turnpike
The Spaulding Turnpike is a north-south toll road in eastern New Hampshire. Nearly its entire length is overlapped by New Hampshire Route 16. Its southern terminus is at the Portsmouth Traffic Circle (Interstate 95 / U.S. Route 1 Bypass) in Por ...
when it opened in August 1957. The Hampton interchange was expanded in 1963 to connect with the Exeter–Hampton Expressway (now part of NH 101).
The US 1 Bypass, which bridged the disconnected sections of I-95 between the north end of the turnpike and the south end of the Maine Turnpike in Kittery, was an expressway with partial grade separation that did not meet
Interstate Highway standards
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. Its crossing over the Piscataqua River, the Maine–New Hampshire Interstate Bridge, was also a
movable lift bridge that caused delays for motorists, especially during busy holiday weekends. A high-level, six-lane bridge over the Piscataqua River, connecting with extensions of I-95 through Portsmouth and Kittery, was proposed in the early 1960s to complete the missing link in the freeway. A competing plan to twin the existing Maine–New Hampshire Interstate Bridge was submitted by the Maine government, but was determined to be more costly due to land required for its approaches, which were already occupied by buildings.
Following a four-year debate, the New Hampshire state legislature approved designs for the high-level bridge in early 1965 despite some opposition from Portsmouth residents. A concurrent bill had been passed by Maine in 1963 but rejected by New Hampshire. Construction of the
Piscataqua River Bridge
The Piscataqua River Bridge is a through arch bridge that crosses the Piscataqua River, connecting Portsmouth, New Hampshire with Kittery, Maine. Carrying six lanes of Interstate 95, the bridge is the third modern span and first fixed crossing of ...
began in February 1968 and cost $50 million. It opened on November 1, 1972, completing the missing link between the sections of I-95 in New Hampshire and Maine. The project also included an expanded interchange with the Spaulding Turnpike, allowing traffic to bypass the Portsmouth Traffic Circle, and a new interchange at Market Street in an area marked for
urban renewal
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. On June 24, 1970, four construction workers on the bridge fell to their deaths when a platform gave way on the Maine approach.
Later history
Traffic volumes on the turnpike grew to an average of over 12,700 vehicles per day by 1962, prompting state officials to propose an expansion.
Plans for the new Piscataqua River Bridge had already included a wider approach, while the south end at the Massachusetts state line was constructed as an eight-lane highway in 1968.
A 1969 report to the state legislature recommended the addition of four lanes to the existing turnpike and reconstruction of the Hampton toll plaza at a cost of $3 million.
The widening of the New Hampshire Turnpike to eight lanes began in early 1973 and required the acquisition of 271 properties and the rebuilding of several bridges.
During construction, several major holiday backups—some as long as —plagued the turnpike.
The Hampton toll plaza was relocated north and expanded in February 1977, coinciding with the completion of the widening project. Toll collection was temporarily suspended from 1979 until 1981 to encourage motorists to switch from the congested NH 101.
The turnpike was planned to have several
service plazas with concessions, but they were later scrapped in favor of liquor stores. The
New Hampshire Liquor Commission
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The commission became operat ...
opened its southbound Hampton store on the turnpike in 1981, which was followed by the northbound outlet in 1992.
Another expansion of the Hampton toll plaza was completed in May 1991 and was followed by the addition of a reversible lane at the toll plaza in July 1995. Further expansions were completed in 1997 and 2002.
The turnpike has been used for several tolling experiments by NHDOT, including automatic tolling from 1995 to 1996 and one-way tolling from 2003 to 2004.
The Hampton toll plaza was expanded again in June 2010 with the opening of
open road tolling
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lanes that could read
E-ZPass transponders. It was the first facility in
New England
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to support open road tolling. The existing tollbooths at the plaza were demolished to make way for the lanes and relocated tollbooths. The project cost $17.8 million to construct and implement and resulted in 50 percent of users during the Memorial Day Weekend test period using the open road tolling lanes.
Tolls
The Blue Star Turnpike is the shortest of three toll roads maintained by the
NHDOT
The New Hampshire Department of Transportation (NHDOT) is a government agency of the U.S. state of New Hampshire. The Commissioner of NHDOT is Victoria Sheehan. The main office of the NHDOT is located in the J. O. Morton Building in Concord.
F ...
Bureau of Turnpikes. The Hampton toll plaza at exit 2 is the sole toll collection point on the turnpike and is the largest facility of its kind in New Hampshire. Its main plaza has six booths and two
open road lanes in each direction for vehicles with
E-ZPass transponders.
The interchange also includes an auxiliary toll plaza, named the Hampton Side Toll Plaza, for traffic traveling to and from NH 101 with four lanes in each direction—two reserved for E-ZPass use and two with cash booths.
, two-axle vehicles using the turnpike are charged $2 in cash fare or $1.40 with an E-ZPass at the main Hampton toll plaza. Two-axle vehicles using the side toll plaza connected to NH 101 are charged $0.75 in cash or $0.53 with an E-ZPass.
Traffic using other sections of the turnpike that exclude exit 2 are not required to pay a toll.
In
fiscal year
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2019, a total of 41.6 million transactions were made at the Blue Star Turnpike's toll plazas, generating $67.6 million in revenue.
Exit list
Exit numbers are sequential.
References
External links
Steve Anderson's BostonRoads.com: New Hampshire Turnpike (I-95)
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