Interstate 95 - Massachusetts
Interstate 95, East Coast's Main Street, remains an important corridor through eastern Massachusetts. The freeway joins the city of Boston with Providence, Rhode Island to the southwest and Portland, Maine to the northeast. While never actually entering the city of Boston, the freeway provides for commuter movements to the north, west, and south suburbs in conjunction with Interstates 90 and 93, and U.S. 1.
The planned path for Interstate 95 in Massachusetts took the highway northeast from Norwood and Dedham into the south side of Boston, converging with the existing Interstate 93 freeway south of Interstate 90. From there Interstate 95 was to travel north to the U.S. 1 (Northeast Expressway) and Tobin Bridge toward Peabody. Parts of U.S. 1 were already a freeway, but the limited-access highway never tied directly into the Massachusetts 128 circumferential highway. Due to bitter neighborhood opposition, especially from the creation of the original Fitzgerald Expressway (Interstate 93), all of planned Interstate 95 outside of the preexisting U.S. 1 sections of freeway were cancelled by 1970. The resulting relocation sent Interstate 95 onto the Massachusetts 128 beltway, leaving 93 to utilize the Central Artery southward to the Massachusetts 3 freeway and southernmost leg of Massachusetts 128.
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