Re: Traffic

[hopfgapr@sprynet.com]

Actually, the Feds simply did not want breaks in the two-digit highway system. (Someone from Iowa or some such going up I-95 from RI would get to Canton and see no sigh for I-95 North anywhere, and unless they were a ggod map reader would likely not be aware that I-95 begins again in Peabody).

The Feds wanted to meke sure that there were no "breaks" in the 'Major' interstates (#s ending in 0 or 5, such as I-90, I-95, I-5 out in CA,OR,WA,etc)

PS: Has ir really been "years" since the Rte 128 markers were removed from Canton-Braintree? I guess I never noticed that!

Going WAY back, does anyone remember when Rte 128 continued thru Braintree and Weymouth to the Current Rte 228 exit in Hingham/Rockland? Back then I believe Rte 228 was the continuation of Rte 128 off the highway..

-Paul Hopfgarten
Derry NH



 ---- On Oct  6 "A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@world.std.com> wrote: 
> On 5 Oct 99,  laurence@sprintmail.com wrote:
> 
> > Speaking of traffic confusion, everyone seems to have Route 128 
> > and I-93 confused.  Route 128 South legally ends at the I-95 split 
> > near the Amtrak station in Canton, and becomes I-93 North.
>  
> I discovered this a couple of years ago, while returning from court in 
> Brockton, coming up Route 24.  How was I to know that Route 128 North was 
> now called Route 93 South?  Apparently the Feds have decided that Route 
> 128 must coincide with Interstate 95, so Route 128 ends at the point where 
> I-95 breaks off south.
> 
> Of course, the reason Route 128 was given Federal Interstate route numbers 
> was so as to get Federal highway money to maintain them.
> 
>  
> 
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