Talk:List of numbered routes in Massachusetts

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1925 map
NE1 NE3 NE4 NE5 NE6 NE7 NE8 NE10 NE12 NE17 NE28 NE32 138 140

1926 Essex County map
US1 NE28 107 110 114 121 125 127 128 129 133

1927 Boston map
nothing 2-digit that wasn't an NE route US1 2 US3 NE12 US20 NE28 102 108 110 111 114 115 117 119 123 126 127 128 129 137 138 140

1929 map
US1 2 US3 4 US5 US6 US7 NE8 NE10 NE12 NE17 US20 21 NE28 NE32 37 49 56 57 58 60 62 63 64 66 67 68 78 85 97 101 102 103 104 105 106 107 108 109 110 111 112 113 114 115 116 117 118 119 120 121 122 123 124 125 126 127 128 129 130 131 132 133 134 135 no 136?!? 137 138 139 140 141 142

Early state highways in Boston
done for now
 * 1908 1166 Washington Street, Dedham to West Roxbury Parkway
 * November 1, 1921 1915 Washington Street, inside West Roxbury Parkway
 * November 3, 1926 2384 Southern Artery, Dorchester Branch to Neponset River
 * October 20, 1931 2837 Truman Parkway, Milton to Milton
 * November 3, 1931 2847 American Legion Highway, Blue Hill Avenue to Cummins Highway
 * December 8, 1931 2853 Brook Farm Parkway, West Roxbury Parkway to Spring Street
 * April 6, 1932 2885 William F. McClellan Highway, Boardman Street to Revere
 * February 7, 1933 2992 William F. McClellan Highway, Addison Street to Boardman Street
 * August 22, 1933 3037 William F. McClellan Highway, Saratoga Street to Addison Street
 * December 18, 1934 3145 Boston-Providence Highway, Dedham to Spring Street
 * January 15, 1935 3156 Neponset Circle
 * December 17, 1935 3178 Truman Parkway alteration near north Milton line
 * May 23, 1939 3316 Truman Parkway, Neponset Valley Parkway to Milton
 * May 23, 1939 3317 Truman Parkway alteration near south Milton line
 * December 30, 1940 3370 William F. McClellan Highway near Boardman Street
 * July 9, 1946 3493 William F. McClellan Highway near Boardman Street
 * June 15, 1948 3592 Dorchester Avenue over Fort Point Channel
 * June 22, 1948 3593 East Boston Expressway, Bremen Street to Neptune Road/Bennington Street
 * November 16, 1948 3610 Frankfort Street in airport
 * November 30, 1948 3611 East Boston Expressway alteration
 * December 14, 1948 3617 Dorchester Avenue over Fort Point Channel
 * September 20, 1949 3640 East Boston Expressway, Chelsea Street to Bremen Street
 * September 20, 1949 3644 East Boston Expressway, Neptune Road to Saratoga Street
 * September 20, 1949 3645 East Boston Expressway, Sumner Tunnel to Bremen Street
 * September 20, 1919 3646 East Boston Expressway, Saratoga Street to Curtis Street
 * August 9, 1949 3653 East Boston Expressway alteration
 * January 3, 1950 3689 Rutherford Avenue and Sullivan Square, north of Tibbets Town Way to Mystic River and Somerville
 * May 9, 1950 3731 Lovell Street and Frankfort Street near Neptune Road
 * May 9, 1950 3733 something near Sullivan Square, Haverhill Street to Gardner Street
 * November 7, 1950 3798 Central Artery, Causeway Street to near Haymarket Square
 * 1950 3818 Tobin Bridge approach, Prospect Street to Charles River
 * January 30, 1951 3827 Central Artery, Cross Street to North Street

Square green signs
Just an aesthetic comment, but I find it a scandal that the only SGS seen in this article's photos is the one in the background on the I-93 signs. Anyone got a good example handy? If not, it shouldn't be hard for any of us here to go snap one. - Cheers, PhilipR 05:23, 30 September 2006 (UTC)

Unnumbered routes
"Massachusetts state road" and "Massachusetts state highway" are redirecting here, so this article should have a canonical list of state-maintained roads (or pointers to such lists). I'm getting these started right now, but we'll likely need to check with some state authorities to verify we haven't missed any. -- Beland 01:39, 20 February 2007 (UTC)
 * I found some excellent sources, which I added to the "External links" section of the article. -- Beland 02:10, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

There are literally hundreds of state-maintained roads without numbers: --NE2 03:25, 20 February 2007 (UTC)

Format, route north/west & south/east termini
The table, in my opinion, is pretty awful. I really like the format at the Virginia state highways list. Perhaps, instead of the routes bunched up like they are with no indication of where they are, a simple four-column table with Route name, North/West Terminus, South/East Terminus, and Length in Miles?Anderfreude 04:19, 9 March 2007 (UTC)

Added Yankee Division Highway
I added the above to the list of named routes. I'm not 100% sure about which routes. Here is the link: http://www.bostonroads.com/roads/MA-128 —Preceding unsigned comment added by Ppierce365 (talk • contribs) 04:06, 10 February 2008 (UTC)

Former US 1 in Dedham
The section of former US 1 in Dedham should be added to the section on unnumbered state roads. As far as I know, it is still a state road, but it has no number. Most people still call it "Route 1", even though that is not technically correct. I think it's official name is "Providence Highway". It becomes the VFW Parkway whn it enters Boston. Mitsguy2001 (talk) 03:04, 23 January 2015 (UTC)
 * I don't know how to edit the table, but I added it as text. Hopefully eventually somebody will find this page and add that route to the table.  Mitsguy2001 (talk) 06:59, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
 * Thank you for fixing. Mitsguy2001 (talk) 16:12, 8 February 2015 (UTC)
 * in the future, adding text like "I don't know how to edit the table, so hopefully somebody can add this route to the table:" into an article is rather poor form. You could have just added the text without that comment, or even just pasted your text here in the talk page with the comment so that someone else could move it over. Remember that readers reading the prose in our articles would take any similar statements as coming in "Wikipedia's voice", and encyclopedias are not written using "I" except in direct quotations.  Imzadi 1979  →   03:41, 9 February 2015 (UTC)
 * I posted in the talk page a while before. Since nobody seemed to be reading it, I figured that adding that comment to the main text would get people's attention and add it to the table, which I still don't know how to do.  Mitsguy2001 (talk) 06:09, 17 February 2015 (UTC)

Missing
C1 and C9 are missing Irish Melkite (talk) 05:13, 9 August 2015 (UTC)

The former C1 (otherwise known, as City-1), is now part of Massachusetts-Route-1A, though the Callahan Tunnel, and Sumner Tunnel. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Leftblank15 (talk • contribs) 11:24, 26 February 2019 (UTC)

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Section removed for comment
I've move a section here for discussion. Since the purpose of the list article is to list the numbered routes in the state, it seems that a table listing named roadways that just happen to contain segments of state-maintained highways, or roadways that completely coincide with such highways, would fall outside of the scope of the topic.  Imzadi 1979  →   01:21, 20 September 2017 (UTC)

These are named highways in the state which also carry numbered designations. Some are simply names of streets which carry a numbered route(s). Roads named after people/organizations were generally done so ceremoniously, after the numeric designation(s) already existed. Others carry more general names, such as the Southeast Expressway and Central Artery in Boston (which both refer to the same continuous span of I-93). Several named highways cover the entire length of a given route in the state; for example, all of Interstate 90 in Massachusetts is the Massachusetts Turnpike, and the entire length of Route 213 is the Loop Connector.(*) denotes that the named highway spans the entire length of the numbered route in the state.

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