The state has secured $2 million in federal funding to study ways to make the Berlin Turnpike safer, an effort that officials say could impact residents and businesses along the 11-mile corridor that spans across several towns south of Hartford.

The U.S. Department of Transportation gave the $2 million award to the Capitol Region Council of Governments (CRCOG), state Department of Transportation, CTtransit and the towns of Berlin, Newington and Wethersfield as part of its recent $1.8 billion round of allocations through the Rebuilding American Infrastructure with…