Talk:List of numbered routes in Massachusetts

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1925 map

NE1 NE3 NE4 NE5 NE6 NE7 NE8 NE10 NE12 NE17 NE28 NE32 138 140

1926 Essex County map

US1 NE28 107 110 114 121 125 127 128 129 133

1927 Boston map

nothing 2-digit that wasn't an NE route US1 2 US3 NE12 US20 NE28 102 108 110 111 114 115 117 119 123 126 127 128 129 137 138 140

1929 map

US1 2 US3 4 US5 US6 US7 NE8 NE10 NE12 NE17 US20 21 NE28 NE32 37 49 56 57 58 60 62 63 64 66 67 68 78 85 97 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 no 136?!? 137 138 139 140 141 142

Current routes

#	History
2	1927 (NE 7)
3	1927 (NE 6)
4	by 1929
8	NE 8
9	by 1933
10	NE 10
12	NE 12
13	by 1939
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24
25
27
28
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31
32
33
35
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62
63
66
67
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70
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75
78
79
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85
88
96
97
98
99
101	by 1942
102	by 1933
103	1926
104	1926
105	1926
106	1926
107	1926
108	by 1939
109	by 1933
110	1926
111	1926
112	1926
113	1926
114	1926
115	by 1936
116	1926
117	1926
118	by 1942
119	1926
120	by 1966
121	by 1966
122	1926
123	1926
124	ca. 1959 from 24
125	1926
126	1926
127	1926
128	1926
129	1926
130	1926
131	1926
132	1926
133	1926
134	1926
135	1926
136	by 1933
137	by 1936 from 25
138	1926
139	by 1939
140	1926
141	by 1942
142	1926
143	by 1933 from 109A
145	by 1958 from 45
146	by 1936
147	by 1966
148	by 1971
149	by 1946 from 49
150	by 1936
151	by 1950
152	by 1939
159	by 1969
168
169	1959 from 93
177	by 1942
181	by 1942
183	by 1933
186	by 1939
187	by 1939
189	by 1939
192	by 1933
193	by 1933
197	by 1933
198	by 1966
203	ca. 1971
213	by 1966
220	by 1942
225	by 1961 from 25
228	by 1968 from 128
240	by 1979
286	early 1970s from 86
295	by 1939 from 204

Early state highways in Boston

• 1908 1166 Washington Street, Dedham to West Roxbury Parkway
• November 1, 1921 1915 Washington Street, inside West Roxbury Parkway
• November 3, 1926 2384 Southern Artery, Dorchester Branch to Neponset River
• October 20, 1931 2837 Truman Parkway, Milton to Milton
• November 3, 1931 2847 American Legion Highway, Blue Hill Avenue to Cummins Highway
• December 8, 1931 2853 Brook Farm Parkway, West Roxbury Parkway to Spring Street
• April 6, 1932 2885 William F. McClellan Highway, Boardman Street to Revere
• February 7, 1933 2992 William F. McClellan Highway, Addison Street to Boardman Street
• August 22, 1933 3037 William F. McClellan Highway, Saratoga Street to Addison Street
• December 18, 1934 3145 Boston-Providence Highway, Dedham to Spring Street
• January 15, 1935 3156 Neponset Circle
• December 17, 1935 3178 Truman Parkway alteration near north Milton line
• May 23, 1939 3316 Truman Parkway, Neponset Valley Parkway to Milton
• May 23, 1939 3317 Truman Parkway alteration near south Milton line
• December 30, 1940 3370 William F. McClellan Highway near Boardman Street
• July 9, 1946 3493 William F. McClellan Highway near Boardman Street
• June 15, 1948 3592 Dorchester Avenue over Fort Point Channel
• June 22, 1948 3593 East Boston Expressway, Bremen Street to Neptune Road/Bennington Street
• November 16, 1948 3610 Frankfort Street in airport
• November 30, 1948 3611 East Boston Expressway alteration
• December 14, 1948 3617 Dorchester Avenue over Fort Point Channel
• September 20, 1949 3640 East Boston Expressway, Chelsea Street to Bremen Street
• September 20, 1949 3644 East Boston Expressway, Neptune Road to Saratoga Street
• September 20, 1949 3645 East Boston Expressway, Sumner Tunnel to Bremen Street
• September 20, 1919 3646 East Boston Expressway, Saratoga Street to Curtis Street
• August 9, 1949 3653 East Boston Expressway alteration
• January 3, 1950 3689 Rutherford Avenue and Sullivan Square, north of Tibbets Town Way to Mystic River and Somerville
• May 9, 1950 3731 Lovell Street and Frankfort Street near Neptune Road
• May 9, 1950 3733 something near Sullivan Square, Haverhill Street to Gardner Street
• November 7, 1950 3798 Central Artery, Causeway Street to near Haymarket Square
• 1950 3818 Tobin Bridge approach, Prospect Street to Charles River
• January 30, 1951 3827 Central Artery, Cross Street to North Street

done for now

Square green signs

Just an aesthetic comment, but I find it a scandal that the only SGS seen in this article's photos is the one in the background on the I-93 signs. Anyone got a good example handy? If not, it shouldn't be hard for any of us here to go snap one. - Cheers, PhilipR 05:23, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

Unnumbered routes

"Massachusetts state road" and "Massachusetts state highway" are redirecting here, so this article should have a canonical list of state-maintained roads (or pointers to such lists). I'm getting these started right now, but we'll likely need to check with some state authorities to verify we haven't missed any. -- Beland 01:39, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

• I found some excellent sources, which I added to the "External links" section of the article. -- Beland 02:10, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

There are literally hundreds of state-maintained roads without numbers: [1] --NE2 03:25, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Format, route north/west & south/east termini

The table, in my opinion, is pretty awful. I really like the format at the Virginia state highways list. Perhaps, instead of the routes bunched up like they are with no indication of where they are, a simple four-column table with Route name, North/West Terminus, South/East Terminus, and Length in Miles?Anderfreude 04:19, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Added Yankee Division Highway

I added the above to the list of named routes. I'm not 100% sure about which routes. Here is the link: http://www.bostonroads.com/roads/MA-128 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ppierce365 (talk • contribs) 04:06, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Former US 1 in Dedham

The section of former US 1 in Dedham should be added to the section on unnumbered state roads. As far as I know, it is still a state road, but it has no number. Most people still call it "Route 1", even though that is not technically correct. I think it's official name is "Providence Highway". It becomes the VFW Parkway whn it enters Boston. Mitsguy2001 (talk) 03:04, 23 January 2015 (UTC)

I don't know how to edit the table, but I added it as text. Hopefully eventually somebody will find this page and add that route to the table. Mitsguy2001 (talk) 06:59, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

Thank you for fixing. Mitsguy2001 (talk) 16:12, 8 February 2015 (UTC)

@Mitsguy2001: in the future, adding text like "I don't know how to edit the table, so hopefully somebody can add this route to the table:" into an article is rather poor form. You could have just added the text without that comment, or even just pasted your text here in the talk page with the comment so that someone else could move it over. Remember that readers reading the prose in our articles would take any similar statements as coming in "Wikipedia's voice", and encyclopedias are not written using "I" except in direct quotations. Imzadi 1979 → 03:41, 9 February 2015 (UTC)

I posted in the talk page a while before. Since nobody seemed to be reading it, I figured that adding that comment to the main text would get people's attention and add it to the table, which I still don't know how to do. Mitsguy2001 (talk) 06:09, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

Missing

C1 and C9 are missing Irish Melkite (talk) 05:13, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

The former C1 (otherwise known, as City-1), is now part of Massachusetts-Route-1A, though the Callahan Tunnel, and Sumner Tunnel . — Preceding unsigned comment added by Leftblank15 (talk • contribs) 11:24, 26 February 2019 (UTC)

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I've move a section here for discussion. Since the purpose of the list article is to list the numbered routes in the state, it seems that a table listing named roadways that just happen to contain segments of state-maintained highways, or roadways that completely coincide with such highways, would fall outside of the scope of the topic. Imzadi 1979 → 01:21, 20 September 2017 (UTC)

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Named numbered routes These are named highways in the state which also carry numbered designations. Some are simply names of streets which carry a numbered route(s). Roads named after people/organizations were generally done so ceremoniously, after the numeric designation(s) already existed. Others carry more general names, such as the Southeast Expressway and Central Artery in Boston (which both refer to the same continuous span of I-93). Several named highways cover the entire length of a given route in the state; for example, all of Interstate 90 in Massachusetts is the Massachusetts Turnpike, and the entire length of Route 213 is the Loop Connector.(*) denotes that the named highway spans the entire length of the numbered route in the state. Name Route number(s) Length (mi) Location Notes Alewife Brook Parkway 2.05 Cambridge Runs from Concord Avenue to the Mystic Valley Parkway. American Legion Highway * Westport Runs through Tiverton, Rhode Island; Fall River, Massachusetts; Westport, Massachusetts Amvets Memorial Highway (Fall River Expressway) * 40.91 Fall River to Randolph Route 24 is a connector between the Fall River/New Bedford area east of Rhode Island to the Boston metropolitan area, connecting the major freeways of the area: I-195 in Fall River and I-93/US-1 near I-95 in Randolph. - Route 79 runs along the highway between Exits 7 and 9, concurrent with Route 24. - I-195 has a brief concurrency with Route 24 in Fall River. Boston Post Road Marlborough to Weston Most of US-20 between Marlborough and Weston runs along the Boston Post Road. Henry E. Bodurtha Highway 5.0 Agawam Freeway comprises the eastern 5 miles (8.0 km) of Route 57, connecting Route 187 to U.S. Route 5 and I-91. Boston-Worcester Turnpike Worcester to Boston Route 9 between Worcester and Boston is mostly a divided full-access highway with traffic light-controlled intersections which serves as one of the main alternatives to the Massachusetts Turnpike. Many shopping centers, car dealers, full-service restaurants and businesses line the roadway on this stretch, especially in Framingham, such as Barnes & Noble, Marshalls, T.G.I. Fridays, Kohl's, Toys "R" Us, Best Buy, Olive Garden and Walmart. This stretch of the roadway is also encompassed in the Golden Triangle district of Massachusetts. Central Artery (John F. Fitzgerald Expressway) 3.18 Boston The Central Artery is the portion of I-93 in downtown Boston, which runs from Massachusetts Ave. (just south of Exit 20) north to U.S. Route 1's departure at Exit 27. Route 3 leaves the Artery at Exit 26. Commonwealth Avenue Newton, Boston Stretches from Weston/Newton line to the Boston Public Garden. East Boston Expressway 1.2 Boston The East Boston Expressway comprises the first 1.2 miles (1.9 km) of Route 1A's northern segment. It stretches from I-93 Exit 24 at the southern end of the Callahan Tunnel (northbound) and the Sumner Tunnel (southbound) to just northeast of the interchange with Route 145 in East Boston, near the eastern end of the Mass Pike. Grand Army of the Republic Highway 117.46 Seekonk to Bourne The cross-country U.S. Route 6 is designated Grand Army of the Republic Highway over its entire length, which spans 3,205 miles (5,158 km). Horseneck Beach Connector * 13.03 Westport Route 88 serves as a connector running from the Horseneck Beach Reservation north to I-195 Exit 10 in Westport. Loop Connector * 3.56 Methuen Route 213 is designated "Loop Connector." It serves as a freeway connection between Interstates 93 and 495 in Methuen. Lydia Taft Highway * 3 Uxbridge Route 146A in Massachusetts is designated as the Lydia Taft Highway, which runs from the Rhode Island state border to Route 122 in Uxbridge. Massachusetts Turnpike * 138.1 West Stockbridge to Boston The Mass Pike is a toll road running from the New York state border to downtown Boston. It serves as the main cross-state freeway connecting the western and eastern portions of the state. The "Pike" carries the easternmost 138 miles (222 km) of cross-country Interstate 90. Memorial Drive 4.12 Cambridge U.S. Route 3 and MA Route 3 connect to each other on Memorial Drive, which runs from the Fresh Pond Parkway to Main Street. Route 2 travels along Memorial Drive with US-3 and leaves via the Boston University Bridge. Mid-Cape Highway 36.6 Bourne to Orleans The Mid-Cape Highway is the main highway on Cape Cod, a 36-mile-long (58 km) freeway running from Route 3 and the Sagamore Bridge east to the Orleans Rotary. Mohawk Trail 65 Williamstown to Orange The 65-mile (105 km) Mohawk Trail comprises the western section of Route 2, from the New York border east to Orange, and is regarded as one of the most scenic drives in the area. Mystic Valley Parkway Arlington, Medford, Winchester Runs from the Alewife Brook Parkway to the Revere Beach Parkway. Northeast Expressway * 4.1 Boston, Chelsea, Revere This section of U.S. Route 1 runs from I-93 Exit 27 (Tobin Bridge) to an interchange with Route 60 in Revere. This was originally supposed to be part of I-95, but I-95 was cancelled in Boston, with I-93 and US-1 taking its place. Northwest Expressway 21.1 Burlington to Tyngsborough The Northwest Expressway serves as a freeway connection between I-95/Route 128 (Exit 32A) in Burlington and the F.E. Everett Turnpike in Nashua, NH. Pilgrims Highway 42.5 Bourne to Braintree The Pilgrims Highway is the southern portion of Route 3, a 42-mile-long (68 km) freeway which serves as a connector between Cape Cod (via U.S. Route 6) and the Boston metropolitan area (via I-93 and I-95). - U.S. Route 44 runs along the highway between Exits 6 and 7. Southeast Expressway Braintree to Boston The Southeast Expressway is the section of I-93 between the Route 3 split (Exit 7) and the Mass Ave. interchange (Exit 18), where it continues into Boston as the Central Artery. Southern Artery 2.13 Quincy The Southern Artery is a major arterial in the city of Quincy, running from Quincy Ave to the Furnace Brook Parkway. Taunton-New Bedford Expressway (Alfred M. Bessette Memorial Highway) 19.3 New Bedford to Taunton The New Bedford Expressway comprises the southern 19 miles (31 km) of Route 140, and serves as a freeway connection between U.S. Route 6 in New Bedford and Route 24 (Exit 12) in Taunton, near I-495. Ted Williams Highway Framingham Route 9 in Framingham is named the Ted Williams Highway, in commemoration of late Boston Red Sox Hall-of-Famer Ted Williams who wore the number 9 on his jersey. Boylston Street 5.8 Newton to Brookline Not be confused with Boylston Street in Boston, which runs from Park Drive to Washington Street. Wilbur Cross Highway * 8.0 Sturbridge I-84 in Massachusetts is designated the Wilbur Cross Highway. It runs 8 miles (13 km) from the Connecticut state border to the Mass Pike at Exit 9. Worcester-Providence Turnpike * 20.99 Millville to Worcester Route 146 is a freeway that, along with Rhode Island's Route 146, serves to connect the metropolitan areas of Providence and Worcester. The entire route starts from I-95 in Providence, with the Massachusetts section picking up at the state line in Millville. The highway runs 21 miles (34 km) northward, intersecting the Mass Pike (I-90) in Worcester, and terminating at I-290 shortly thereafter. - Route 122A runs along the highway between Exits 9 and 12, concurrently with Route 146. Yankee Division Highway (Circumferential Highway) * 64.74 Braintree to Gloucester The Yankee Division Highway consists of the Route 128 beltway before it was truncated to its southern terminus in Canton, and continues to span its entire length. It stretches from I-93's Exit 7 in Braintree to Route 128's northern terminus at Route 127A in Gloucester. - I-95 runs along the highway between Exits 12 and 45 (concurrent with 128). - I-93 runs along the highway between Exits 1 and 7. - U.S. Route 1 runs along the highway between I-95 Exit 15B and I-93 Exit 7.

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