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Route 8 is the portion of the 148 mile multistate New England Route 8 within the state of Massachusetts.The highway runs 66.643 miles (107.252 km) from the Connecticut state line in Sandisfield, where the highway continues as Connecticut Route 8, north to the Vermont state line in Clarksburg, where the highway continues as Vermont Route 8 and VT 100.
Route 8 is a 67.36-mile (108.41 km) state highway in Connecticut that runs north–south from Bridgeport, through Waterbury, all the way to the Massachusetts state line where it continues as Massachusetts Route 8. Most of the highway is a four-lane freeway but the northernmost 8.8 miles (14.2 km) is a two-lane surface road. [1]
The longest Interstate Highway in Massachusetts is I-90 with 136 miles, followed by I-495 with 121 miles. Several freeway projects in the Boston area planned as part of the Interstate Highway System were cancelled in the 1970s following community opposition, including the Inner Belt (I-695) and Southwest Expressway (I-95). [3]
The longest Interstate highway in Massachusetts is Interstate 90 (the Mass Pike), which runs 138.1 miles (222.3 km). The shortest route in Massachusetts is Route 15, which runs for only 0.23 miles (0.37 km). The shortest signed highway is Route 108, which runs for 0.92 miles (1.48 km). Both are short extensions of state highways in neighboring ...
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Mostly follows the old New England Route 8: Route 8A: 35.85: 57.69 Route 8 / Route 9 in Dalton: VT 8A in Whitingham, VT: c. 1950: current MassHighway denotes this highway as Route 8A-L Route 8A: 3.17: 5.10 Route 8 in North Adams: Route 2 / Route 8 in North Adams: c. 1950: current MassHighway denotes this highway as Route 8A-U Route 9: 135.5
A national survey of drivers has named Route 44 in Rehoboth, a location well known to readers familiar with the Bridgewater Triangle, as Massachusetts' Scariest Road.
Route 8A refers to two separate north–south state highways in western Massachusetts in the United States. Both sections are marked as "Route 8A" on guide signs and reassurance markers . In official documentation, MassHighway denotes one highway as 8A-U, and the other as 8A-L, for "upper" and "lower", respectively.