Any Berlin Turnpike (CT) folks here?

Back in the late 80's and early 90's ( Roy Rogers to Mcdonalds and back) we used to head there about every couple of weeks and cruse the turnpike from Groton, New London Norwich area. Now the turn pike is so built up, nothing is going on. I tried to hit Ralph's thing at Burger King. Between the ricers, and bo-bo's plus the police are using under cover cars to actually try to get people to race them. I had the Demon up there last year and left Ralph's thing headed to my friends house in Meridan and a turbo coupe tried to race me and something told me "just let him go" about a mile up the road the same car had a guy pulled over in an old stang. Blue and red hide-a-ways going crazy.
I understand that all these new restaurants and shops bring the town money but it is really sad to see a piece of my past gone forever.