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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)[reply]
"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)[reply]
I found some excellent sources, which I added to the "External links" section of the article. -- Beland 02:10, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
There are literally hundreds of state-maintained roads without numbers: [1] --NE2 03:25, 20 February 2007 (UTC)[reply]
Format, route north/west & south/east termini[edit]
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)[reply]
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)[reply]
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)[reply]
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)[reply]
Thank you for fixing. Mitsguy2001 (talk) 16:12, 8 February 2015 (UTC)[reply]
@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)[reply]
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)[reply]
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)[reply]
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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)[reply]
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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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