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Route 2 enters Lexington and heads to Boston's inner belt, and as it crosses Interstate 95/Route 128, it becomes a six-lane freeway with a speed limit of 55 miles per hour. In Belmont , Route 2 remains a six-lane freeway, and then becomes an eight-lane freeway at Exit 132 (formerly 57) in Arlington , where U.S. Route 3 would have joined it from ...
U.S. Route 2 or U.S. Highway 2 (US 2) is an east–west United States Numbered Highway spanning 2,571 miles (4,138 km) across the northern continental United States. US 2 consists of two segments connected by various roadways in southern Canada .
Storrow Drive, an unnumbered high-speed parkway along the Charles River connecting downtown Boston with the Route 2 corridor, U.S. Route 20, a route running from Kenmore Square to Newport, Oregon — although it is not an expressway. Massachusetts Route 2 (the Concord Turnpike/Alewife Brook Parkway), serving the northwestern suburbs including ...
Route 2 west / US 202 south – Greenfield, Belchertown: Exit 77 on Route 2/US 202: Phillipston: 28.4: 45.7: Route 2 east / US 202 north – Boston, Winchendon: Exit 77 on Route 2/US 202: 30.7: 49.4: Route 2 / US 202 south – Fitchburg, Boston, Greenfield, Belchertown: Western end of US 202 concurrency; exit 79 on Route 2: Templeton: 31.5: 50.7
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 ]
Prior to 1959, Route 37 continued to Boston & ended at former Route C37 Route 38: 27.3: 43.9 Route 99 in Boston: NH 38 in Pelham, NH: c. 1933: current Formerly numbered Route 3B Route 39: 8.15: 13.12 Route 28 / Route 124 in Harwich: Route 28 in Orleans — — Route 40: 10.46: 16.83 Route 119 / Route 225 in Groton: Route 3A in Chelmsford
Planned West End Street Railway system, 1885; consolidation of these lines was complete by 1887. See also 1880 horse railway map.. Mass transportation in Boston was provided by private companies, often granted charters by the state legislature for limited monopolies, with powers of eminent domain to establish a right-of-way, until the creation of the MTA in 1947.
The San Francisco Bay Trail is a bicycle and pedestrian trail that will eventually allow continuous travel around the shoreline of San Francisco Bay. As of 2016, 350 miles (560 km) of trail have been completed, while the full plan calls for a trail over 500 miles (800 km) long that link the shoreline of nine counties, passing through 47 cities ...