Posted on 01/30/2021 4:53:29 PM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
BOSTON — The Massachusetts Department of Transportation is getting ready to switch the exit signs along part of Route 128 to a mileage-based system.
Work on the signs along Route 3 is expected to be finished on Tuesday and installations along Route 128 from Gloucester to Peabody will begin Wednesday. The swapping of signs along that part of Route 128 is expected to last about eight days, MassDOT officials said.
The exit numbers are being changed by MassDOT to comply with federal highway mandates, which require mile-based exit signs. Massachusetts is one of three states that have not yet begun any sort of conversion to the mileage-based system. Delaware and New Hampshire are the other two states.
Work is being done overnight between 8 p.m. and 5 a.m.
The old numbers will remain on the signs for at least two years.
In October, Route 140 between Taunton and New Bedford became the first in the state to receive mileage-based exit numbers.
Construction is anticipated to end in the summer of 2021, MassDOT said.
“Work will typically be completed during the overnight hours and the contractors are required to complete the full interchange before moving along to the next exit,” MassDOT said.
Multiple public hearings on the exit number conversion were held prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, with the last one held in September.
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You typically get something like 115, 115A, 115B, etc.
A long time ago, a group of us corporate employees from Chicago ended up in Boston on an extended project after a management change. When I arrived there as a new hire, one of the more experienced people on the project explained that the definition of a good time at the Boston location was “Waking up naked on a pool table in P-Buddy”. It took a while to understand the reference.
Why didn’t they number the exits based on mileage in the first place? I though all exits on interstate highways were mileage based.
I though all exits on interstate highways were mileage based.
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You would have to ‘reeducate’ all the Old Timers living within shouting distance of the New Jersey Turnpike.
They use the exit #s as their guide etc... Exit 7 and mile marker 7 have absolutely nothing to do with each other...
Corruption! I would be willing to bet that if you travel the interstate through Greensboro, NC today, you will encounter miles and miles of construction. Over the course of almost a decade (or a little more) I traveled through Greensboro, NC numerous times. It was the ONLY place I have ever been through that was under CONSTANT construction. Then there is 44 in Missouri coming out of Springfield heading northeast... There are mile marker signs EVERY 2/10’s of a mile for mile after mile! Ridiculous! Every bit of this is graft and corruption.
It depends on the state. Most states number by miles from the state line, but some states number them consecutively.
I don’t think I-45 between Houston and Galveston has ever not been under construction and it was “completed” in 1952!
Indeed. And we have ROTARIES!
My sister calls our state “Marxachussetts”.
Sure it does. You get Exit 26, Exit 26.27, Exit 26.92, Exit 27.307, Exit 27.6937, etc.
One question. Where is the starting point for the mileage count? From where the road starts, from the state border, from some mythical point at the state Capitol, or from the exact center of the Washington Monument? What is the standard?
Mileage exit numbering in the northeast is just plain dumb.Out west not so much.
The urban Northeast, where you can’t swing a dead cat without hitting an exit ramp.
Or where i live. 35 miles between exits, what used to be exit 2 is now exit 70. Bunch of logical thinkers run this country. s
Ok, 30 exits over ~120 miles. But it looks like this skips long sections (5-10 mile stretches) of possible exits, it’s not a normal highway.
Still, stupid to not plan for other exits being added long-term.
Rather, it's a classic mistake to engineer for future decisions that are not likely to be made. It's not a normal highway now, why should it be a normal highway in the future? Feeder roads keep the Turnpike running fast.
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