Roadway portals of Heroes Tunnel with vehicles. A 2007 photograph shows the Route 15 tunnel through West Rock, opened in 1949.
Evidence, credit & reuse: Naming chronology: 2003 act, spelling corrected 2004. Current CTDOT web page's 2001 date conflicts with primary legislative evidence. Attribute/share alike for adaptations. Highway tunnel; distinguish from nearby railway tunnel records. Display copy optimized for the web with proportional resizing and compression. The linked repository identifies the original image. Reuse: CC BY-SA 2.0; Commons Flickr license review passed July 5, 2007.
Source: Andrew Ciscel / Wikimedia Commons; original Flickr photo
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Silent Grounds Collective, Documented Tunnels of the New Haven Region, SGC-ED086, ED-H-HT28, “Heroes Tunnel.” Source: Andrew Ciscel / Wikimedia Commons; original Flickr photo. https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Heroes_Tunnel.jpg. Research edition, accessed 2026-09-12.