Re: Traffic

["A. Joseph Ross" <lawyer@world.std.com>]

On 6 Oct 99,  hopfgapr@sprynet.com wrote:

> 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).
 
That's fine for the Interstate numbers, and I have no quarrel with that.  
It's not unusual for one road to have more than one route number, so it 
doesn't bother me that most of Route 128 is I-95.  What bothers me is that 
the state route 128 had to be changed.  I don't see why Massachusetts 
Route 128 couldn't encompass parts of I-95 and I-93.  Nor do I see any 
good reason why the Route 128 signs are often hidden or de-emphasized, so 
that locals who are used to looking for Route 128 interchanges can only 
find I-95 interchanges.


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