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The route in Cape Cod was also assigned in 1922 as a primary New England route. The road from Bourne to Orleans along the south shore of the Cape was the easternmost section of New England Route 3. At the end of 1926, the U.S. Highway system was established and several of the primary New England routes were redesignated as U.S. routes.
U.S. Route 6 (US 6) in Massachusetts is a 117.952-mile-long (189.825 km) portion of the cross-country route connecting Providence, Rhode Island, to Fall River, New Bedford, and Cape Cod. In the Fall River and New Bedford areas, US 6 parallels Interstate 195 (I-195). On Cape Cod, US 6 is a highway interconnecting the towns of the area.
It was part of the Cape Cod Expressway, which eventually morphed into the Mid-Cape Highway. It was originally planned to be a safe alternative to US 6 and was to be located on the northern side of the Cape Cod Canal. [17] As early as 1962, the Massachusetts Department of Public Works conducted a study once questions on the plans were raised.
I-195 runs from I-95 in Providence to I-495/Route 25 in the Cape Cod region. I-295 runs as a loop around Providence, and ends at I-95 in Massachusetts. I-395 runs from I-95/Connecticut Turnpike in East Lyme, and ends at I-90, where it becomes I-290. I-495 serves as an outer beltway of Boston, and is the second longest auxiliary interstate highway.
Massachusetts Route 3 connects to the southern terminus of US 3 in Cambridge and continues south to Cape Cod. Though it shares a number, it has never been part of US 3. Both routes, which connect end-to-end, are treated as a single 91.3-mile (146.9 km) state highway by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT).
Massachusetts Route 6A is the state road for two sections formerly known as U.S. Route 6 (US 6) on Cape Cod. Most of Route 6A is also known as the Old King's Highway. Combining the 2 major sections (and a "silent" concurrency with US 6 through Eastham, Wellfleet, and South Truro), the highway is approximately 62 miles (100 km) long.
The Plimoth Patuxet Highway, a two-lane divided freeway that connects Route 3 with Route 3A, was once signed as Route 3 before the southernmost portion of the freeway to Cape Cod was finished. The first section of the Pilgrims Highway was built as a bypass of Plymouth in the early 1950s.
Interstate 495 (I-495) is an auxiliary route of I-95 in the US state of Massachusetts, maintained by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT). Spanning 121.56 miles (195.63 km), it is the second-longest auxiliary route in the Interstate Highway System, being roughly 11 miles (18 km) shorter than I-476 in Pennsylvania.