%%EOF US3 separates from I-93 at exit35, shortly north of the northern park boundary in Franconia. Union Street Braintree, South Braintree, Burgin Parkway, Quincy Center, Quincy Adams MBTA Station, Signed as exits 19/18 southbound, former exit 18 ramp serves both Burgin Pkwy and Washington St, I-93 south / US 1 south to I-95 - Canton*, South end of Route 28 overlap; interchange northbound and at-grade intersection southbound, Cambridge Street - to Government Center, Massachusetts General Hospital, Interchange; southbound exit is via a left turn at Wadsworth Street, Land Boulevard to Expressways Charlestown, Route 2A - Massachusetts Ave./Harvard Bridge, Ramp to direct access to Mass Ave - Route 3 continues below grade. Rest Area MA 27 Mile Marker (Southbound) Westwood MA Massachusetts; Northbound . The former NE 6 then took the route 3 number with U.S. Route 3 designated north of its intersection with U.S. Route 1 and Massachusetts Route 3 to the south. Exit Numbering system in December 2020. This was the answer I received: "The MA Route Cedarville, Manomet, Plimoth The project is expected to cost $256 million. An entire stretch of Route 3 northbound in Braintree, Massachusetts, was closed earlier Tuesday morning following a serious crash on the highway. Continuing north, the freeway briefly enters Lowell, then passes through North Chelmsford and Tyngsborough before crossing the state line into Nashua, New Hampshire. Route 3connects to the southern terminus of US 3 in Cambridge and continues south to Cape Cod. Route 128 is also the only highway in the state to contain directional exit designations (N/S or E/W after the number, as opposed to the traditional A/B/C in Massachusetts). US3 traverses downtown Concord as North and South Main streets (briefly overlapping with US202 and NH9), then follows North State Street to Fisherville Road to Village Street in Penacook before crossing the Contoocook River into Boscawen. The $365-million (equivalent to $494million in 2021[5]), 21-mile (34km) widening project was completed in 2005 from Burlington to the New Hampshire border. However, by 1966 the 128 designation was removed past its intersection with Route 3 in Braintree (and thus from the Pilgrims Highway entirely) and the surface portion became Massachusetts Route 228. The Artery ends as I-93 continues north out of the city. The work was scheduled to begin along Route 3 NB during the week of December 7, 2020. RTE 3A (Main St.)Jct. Signed as South Main Street from Northbound, Mechanic Street and South Main Street both signed from Southbound. The Burlington to Tyngsborough area maintains a 501(c)6 nonprofit representative entity known as the Middlesex 3 Coalition[2] and its affiliate agency the Middlesex 3 TMA,[3] which provides collaborative support to businesses and individuals within the jurisdiction to build consensus on transportation and developmental needs. Search All Exits along I-90 traveling Westbound in Massachusetts. In the 1930s Route 3A's route was shifted onto new alignments built to reduce traffic problems in several communities through which the highway traversed. Kingston, S. Duxbury, - The Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) is converting all exit numbers on freeways to a milepost-based numbering system, per the Federal Highway Administration . %PDF-1.6 % US3 and NH11 briefly form a three-route concurrency with NH127 in Franklin, then pass through Tilton, crossing NH132 and passing the western end of NH140. Route 128 currently has 18 numbered . Rest Area MA 38 Mile Marker (Southbound) Newton MA Its last major intersection is at the northern terminus of NH145. A 1962 plan called for Route2 and US3 to converge at Alewife Brook Parkway with a longer stretch of new highway for US3 paralleling Lowell Street in Lexington and Summer Street in Arlington. The roadway was shut down between Ridge Road Overpass and Exit 85, according to the DOT. MassDOT Route 3 is a state-numbered route in the U.S. state of Massachusetts, maintained by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT). When the first 22 miles (35km) of the highway were resurfaced in 1975-76, the new numbers were instituted in that section. [6][7], Route map: .mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 0;box-sizing:border-box;border:1px solid #aaa;font-size:88%;line-height:1.25em;background-color:#f9f9f9;display:flow-root}.mw-parser-output .side-box-abovebelow,.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{padding:0.25em 0.9em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-image{padding:2px 0 2px 0.9em;text-align:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-imageright{padding:2px 0.9em 2px 0;text-align:center}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .side-box-flex{display:flex;align-items:center}.mw-parser-output .side-box-text{flex:1}}@media(min-width:720px){.mw-parser-output .side-box{width:238px}.mw-parser-output .side-box-right{clear:right;float:right;margin-left:1em}.mw-parser-output .side-box-left{margin-right:1em}}, This article is about the state highway from Bourne to Cambridge. From where it leaves the Everett Turnpike in Nashua northward, US3 is generally a two-to-four lane at-grade road, though there are two super-two freeway portions in northern New Hampshire, one on the Laconia Bypass, and one where US3 and I-93 use the Franconia Notch Parkway. US 3 in MA (Northwest Expressway) Exit List 19 Miles, From I-95/128 in Burlington to NH Border Exits Renumbered between January 20 and February 10, 2021 The crash was reported shortly after 3 p.m. on Route 3 north prior to Exit 84. The "Cape Way" name is reflected in numerous business names along 3A's length. Westford, North Chelmsford, - hbbd```b``V3 -DL7m@S H2^/H*)5&&ls f#}6lZ$?9a`bd`d q] r0 think of Routes 3 north and south of Boston as 2 routes, perhaps they The routing of Route 3 has changed little since that time. PLYMOUTH If you are driving on Route 3 any time soon, dont be surprised if you are confused by the exit numbers on the road signs. No southbound exit; indirect southbound access to Lowell Connector via exit 81A, Split into exits 81A (north) and 81B (south), No southbound exit; northbound entrance extends into New Hampshire, where it merges with exit 1, Southbound left exit and northbound entrance, Exit 7 on Everett Turnpike; northern end of concurrency with the Everett Turnpike, Southbound exit to and entrance from NH101 east via Meetinghouse Road, Exit 4 on I-293; eastern terminus of NH114A; southern terminus of, Northern end of wrong-way concurrency with NH3A, Southern end of silent concurrency with NH3A, Southern end of concurrency with US202/ NH9, Northern end of concurrency with NH3A; southern end of concurrency with NH11, Exit20 on I-93; western terminus of NH140, Partial interchange; no southbound exit to NH106 north; no northbound entrance from NH106 south, Partial interchange; southbound exit and northbound entrance, Interchange; northern end of concurrency with NH25; northern terminus of NH3A, Exit 34A on I-93; southern end of concurrency with I-93 and the Franconia Notch Parkway; southbound exit only, Exit 35 on I-93; northern end of concurrency with I-93 and the Franconia Notch Parkway; northbound exit only, Southern end of concurrency with NH116/ NH142, This page was last edited on 26 February 2023, at 20:58. Consequently, a partially completed cloverleaf interchange connects US3 to I-95. Exit 7 will become Exit 16 while exits 5, 4, 3 and 2 will become 13, 12, 7 and 3. Lists. US3 highlighted in red and US3 Bus. AASHTO design standards, particularly regarding minimum vertical Exit numbers on Route 3 were to be changed to those based on highway mileposts under a MassDOT project due to start in 2016, but this project was postponed. 42.21028N 70.99667W Roosevelt Circle ( Interstate 93, Route 28 & S Border Road), in Medford, Massachusetts, is an oval shaped rotary interchange. 1936) " We saw the machinery where murderers are now executed. US 3, and, perhaps, like US 1, it could all be moved off of local As required by the Federal Highway Administration, exit signs must now feature the mile number nearest to the off ramp. Its southern portion parallels Route 3 from Cedarville in southern Plymouth to Neponset in the Dorchester area of Boston. Originally built in the 1950s, before the cancelation of the Inner Belt, the US3 freeway was to have extended into metro Boston before being truncated to I-95. After crossing the Merrimack River and interchanging with I-93, US3 intersects NH3A (South Main Street), which terminates at its parent route. The latter section of the expressway was a key component of the "Master Plan Highway Plan for Metropolitan Boston". 2016, but eventually. Through Holderness, US3 and NH25 gradually turn west, then southwest, passing the southern end of NH175 and then reaching the northern end of NH132 in Ashland. [3] The exits will be numbered based on mileage from the start of Route 3 at the Sagamore Bridge. Exit numbering and mileposts revert to scheme of I-293. Patuxet Hwy - Manomet (SB), Long Pond North of Neponset, Route 3A runs, unsigned, concurrently with Route 3 and U.S. Route 3 to Burlington, before separating again (MassDOT counts the mileage along MA 3 between the two sections as part of MA 3A mileage). Renumbered as of December 14, 2020, East Spanning approximately 56 miles (90km) along a northsouth axis, it is inventoried with U.S. Route 3 (US 3) as a single route by the state. joins it without exiting, but there currently are numbers for these This portion of the route stretches for approximately 43 miles. Only two minutes from exits. Hanover, Norwell, - The original northern terminus of US3 (in 1926) was at Colebrook, New Hampshire, but the highway was extended to West Stewartstown in 1928 and to Pittsburg in 1937. museum site. the southeastern part of the state. MassDOT expects to complete the first phase of the changeover by summer 2021. I-91 Exits in Massachusetts I-91 . Route 3A has two major posted segments, separated by a lengthy concurrency with Route 3 and US 3. Route The section of Route 3A south of the intersection with Route 113 in Tyngsborough (all but the northern few miles of the route) was formerly U.S. Route 3, prior to the construction of the Northwest Expressway, a freeway connection from I-95 in Burlington to the Everett Turnpike in Nashua, New Hampshire, which was given the U.S. Route 3 designation. **Name changed Pilgrims Highway is the part of Route 3 that stretches from the intersection with US 6 in Bourne to the junction with Interstate 93 in Braintree. No further information was immediately available. A re-signing project from 2006 to 2009 changed exit 20 to exit 20A for I-93 south and exit 20B for I-93 north. Massachusetts exit numbers are changing. US3 continues north to Lancaster, where it joins US2 in the town center, and where NH135 branches off to the west. 42. (WWLP) - The Massachusetts Department of Transportation began the process of renumbering highway signs along I-91 Wednesday night. and 42C northbound. US3 joins NH11 and turns east; NH3A also resumes at this intersection, continuing north. North end of U.S. Route 1 overlap; signed as exits 15A (to Route 1A) and 15B (U.S. Route 1 south), Signed as exits 16A (east) and 16B (west), Great Plain Avenue West Roxbury, Needham, Highland Avenue Needham, Newton Highlands, Signed as exits 19A (east) and 19B (west), Route 9 Framingham, Worcester, Brookline, Boston, Signed as exits 20A (east) and 20B (west), Route 16 Wellesley, Newton, West Newton, Waban, Lower Falls, Signed as exits 21A (east) and 21B (west) southbound, Northbound exits and entrances for Exits 23, 25, and 24, in that order, are serviced by a two-lane collector-distributor road, US 20 Weston, Waltham, Wayland, Marlboro, Rotary interchange with four directional entrance ramps, Wyman Street, Winter Street, Totten Pond Road Waltham, Signed as exits 27A and 27B; Northbound exits 27A (Third Ave) and 27B (Totten Pond Rd/Wyman St/Winter St) are serviced by collector-distributor roads, Signed as exits 28A (east) and 28B (west) northbound, Route 2 Acton, Fitchburg, Arlington, Cambridge, Signed as exits 29A (east) and 29B (west), Route 2A Concord, Hanscom Field, East Lexington, Signed as exits 30A (east) and 30B (west), Signed as exits 31A (south/east) and 31B (north/west), Middlesex Turnpike Burlington, Arlington, Exits and entrances for Exits 32A and 32B are serviced by collector-distributor roads, US 3 south / Route 3A north Burlington, Winchester, North end of U.S. Route 3 overlap; signed as exits 33A (south) and 33B (north), Signed as exits 37A (south) and 37B (north), Signed as exits 38A (south) and 38B (north), Main Street Lynnfield Center, Wakefield, Signed as exits 44A (south/west) and 44B (north/east) northbound, No southbound exit access is via exit 50; signed as exits 47A (east) and 47B (west), Signed as exits 53A (south) and 53B (north), Signed as exits 54A (east) and 54B (west) northbound, Signed as exits 58A (east) and 58B (west) northbound. Cove Rd - N. Billerica, - The plan is better than the old one. Exit 26 MA 28 N, Storrow Dr, North Sta Downtown [Gas(99+), Food(99+), Hotels(99+) within 5 miles] [~0.41 mi to Exit 25, ~0.22 mi to Exit 27] nearby city: Boston,MA. In North Woodstock, US3 crosses NH112 (known to the east as the Kancamagus Highway). The entire route travels from a continuation of Connecticut Route 183 by Colebrook, Connecticut , to U.S. Route 7 (US 7) and US 20 in Lenox . Highway Exit List, 43 Interstate 293 South/NH Route 101 East -Portsmouth. least, got to be Exit 0. It was replaced in its entirety with the establishment of US3 and Route3 in 1926. For the U.S. route that continues from Cambridge to Tyngsborough, see, Personal e-mail from Stephen Timmins, Mass. Massachusetts Department of Transportation, contact the Massachusetts Department of Transportation. It crosses the Longfellow Bridge on the BostonCambridge city line, and transitions into US 3 shortly after an intersection with Route 2A in Cambridge. Toggle navigation. The changeover began Oct. 18 in Southeastern Massachusetts with Route 140. North Chelmsford, Chelmsford, - US 3 Exits in Massachusetts US 3 . Route 3 began as a new designation for New England Highway 6 in 1927 when the U.S. Highway system was created and New England highway Route 3 was chosen to be US 6. The freeway continues north as the Everett Turnpike. It runs along the north bank of the Charles River, opposite Soldiers Field Road in Allston along this stretch. part of the state. The former Route 3 highways became Route 3A in Quincy and from Kingston south, the remainder became Route 53. The two routes continue as Hooksett Road, then the Daniel Webster Highway. considered a practical option at this time. US3 continues north as the Daniel Webster Highway to Meredith at the northern end of Meredith Bay on Lake Winnipesaukee. It is a former alignment of US3, used before the LaconiaGilford bypass was built. After a brief concurrency with Interstate95 (I-95) and Route128, the route follows its own freeway northwest, bypassing Lowell and entering New Hampshire at Nashua, becoming the Everett Turnpike. Along East Street from Hull Street to Summer, Route 3A shared the highway with Route 128 in the late 1920s and early 1930s. Exeunt omnes. The accident happened between Route 5 and Route 15 just before 2:16 p.m. Thank you for your website feedback! Exit numbers on the US3 freeway start at milemarker72 since Route3 and US3 are counted as one highway by MassDOT. Route 3A is a 97-mile-long (156 km) state highway in eastern Massachusetts, which parallels Route 3 and U.S. Route 3 from Cedarville in southern Plymouth to Tyngsborough at the New Hampshire state line. The Southeast Expressway segment of Route 3 is approximately 10 miles long. If you would like to continue helping us improve Mass.gov, join our user panel to test new features for the site. The highway would have traveled through Lexington, Arlington, Medford, Somerville, and Cambridge, before linking with the Inner Belt Expressway. In the 1950s and early 1960s Route 3A was extended to take over the original path of Route 3 south of Kingston to Plymouth and north of downtown Quincy to Neponset when Route 3 assumed its current freeway route. started to convert exit numbers in late October 2020 with routes in Scott Fitzgerald (18961940), US 6 west (Scusset Beach Road) Buzzards Bay, Falmouth, Split into two exits Northbound: Northbound Exit 1A leads to Eastbound Scusset Beach Road; the exit for Route 6 Westbound is unnumbered Northbound, Route 3A (Herring Pond Road) Cedarville, Manomet. Work then moved to Interstate 195 in October. The final section of the expressway was planned for inner suburban towns northwest of Boston, Massachusetts. However, U-Turn ramps ahead make it accessible to go the other direction. From 1922 to 1926, Route 3A between Kingston and Quincy was New England Interstate Route 6A. For much of its routing, US3 closely parallels I-93, serving as a local route to the freeway. US3 travels north through Boscawen, briefly overlapping with US4. MA 3/Pilgrims A lock icon ( Still following the Connecticut River north, US3 passes through portions of Stewartstown and Clarksville. Use this button to show and access all levels. US3 runs along 1.6 miles (2.6km) of I-95 (Route128) in a wrong-way concurrency before exiting at exit50A onto its own freeway, the Northwest Expressway. US3 and NH3A are signed in a wrong-way concurrency for approximately 0.6 miles (0.97km) before US3 turns north onto Elm Street toward downtown Manchester. ], [3. MA 228, the suggested that, as an alternative to the above, since most drivers US3 continues north through the town of Merrimack and into Bedford, where it becomes South River Road. MassDOT started converting Exit 8 will become 17, and 9, 10, 11 12, 13, and 14 will become 18, 20, 22, 27, 32, and 35. It may make more sense to have this numbered as 35. Much of Route 3A is sometimes referred to as the "Cape Way" due to its history as the only major road to Cape Cod from Boston prior to the opening of Route 3. Route 125 north - Plaistow, NH Haverhill, Massachusetts PARKING AREA Parking Area Haverhill, Massachusetts EXIT 52 Route 110 - Haverhill, Merrimac . Route2A splits from US3 just to the north. Route 3 was then taken off its remaining pathway along surface streets in Boston and extended up the Southeast Expressway and Central Artery in 1971 to the Storrow Drive exit. Both routes, which connect end-to-end, are treated as a single 91.3-mile (146.9km) state highway by the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT). Spanning approximately 56 miles (90 km) along a north-south axis, it is inventoried with U.S. Route 3 (US 3) as a single route by the state. Since 1940, the highway has run through Pittsburg to the PittsburgChartierville Border Crossing. Although MassDOT inventories Route3 and US3 as one continuous route, this table includes the mileage only for US3 starting from its southern terminus in Cambridge. The highway parallels I-293 until it turns east in Manchester and then crosses the Merrimack River on Queen City Avenue, just after its intersection with I-293/NH3A and NH114A. exits. eventually. The Pizzas, grinders, paninis, fresh salads and more waiting for you. would require AASHTO review and approval before implementation, is not This replaced a routing along long-existing roadways such as Country Way in Scituate, South and North Main Streets in Cohasset and East Street to Summer Street in Hingham. 399 0 obj <>/Filter/FlateDecode/ID[]/Index[374 63]/Info 373 0 R/Length 122/Prev 985043/Root 375 0 R/Size 437/Type/XRef/W[1 3 1]>>stream Have you seen Hanover's new exit numbers on State Route 3? In the process, the ramp carrying Route 3 to I-93 north was no longer signed as part of Route 3. This arrangement changed after 1951. Rest Area MA 10 Mile Marker (Northbound) Mansfield MA, MA 001 exit US 1 south (Broadway) Pawtucket RI, MA 002A exit Route 1A south (Newport Avenue) Pawtucket RI, MA 002B exit Route 1A north to US 1 South Attleboro, MA 003 exit Route 123 South Attleboro, Attleboro, Norton, MA 004 exit I295 south Woonsocket, RI, Warwick RI, MA 005 exit o Route 152 North Attleboro, Attleboro, MA 007 exit Route 140 Mansfield, Foxboro, MA 008 exit South Main Street Sharon, Mechanic Street Foxboro, MA 009 exit US 1 to Route 27 Walpole, US 1 Foxboro, Wrentham, MA 010 exit Coney Street Walpole, Sharon, MA 011 exit Neponset Street Canton, Norwood, MA 012 exit I93 north / US 1 north Boston Route 128, MA 013 exit University Avenue MBTA / Amtrak station, MA 018 exit Great Plain Avenue West Roxbury, MA 019 exit Highland Avenue Newton Highlands, Needham, MA 020 exit Route 9 Brookline, Boston, Framingham, Worcester, MA 021 exit Route 16 Newton, Wellesley, Waban, MA 025 exit I90 / Mass Pike Boston, Albany NY, MA 027A exit Third Avenue Waltham, Totten Pond Road / Third Avenue / Wyman Street[8], MA 028 exit Trapelo Road Belmont, Lincoln, MA 029A exit Route 2 east Arlington, Cambridge, MA 029B exit Route 2 west Acton, Fitchburg, MA 030 exit Route 2A East Lexington, Hanscom Field, Concord, MA 031 exit Route 4 / Route 225 Lexington, Bedford, MA 032A exit US 3 north Lowell, Nashua NH, MA 032B exit Middlesex Turnpike Burlington, MA 034 exit Winn Street Woburn, Burlington, MA 035 exit Route 38 Woburn, Wilmington, MA 036 exit Washington Street Woburn, Reading, MA 039 exit North Avenue Reading, Wakefield, MA 040 exit Route 129 Wakefield Center, Wilmington, MA 041 exit Main Street Lynnfield Center, Wakefield, MA 043 exit Walnut Street Saugus, Lynnfield, MA 044 exit US 1 / Route 129 Boston, Danvers, MA 047 exit Route 114 Peabody, Middleton, MA 049 exit Route 62 Danvers, Middleton, MA 050 exit US 1 Topsfield, US 1 to Route 62 / Route 114 Topsfield, Danvers, MA 051 exit Endicott Road Topsfield, Middleton, MA 052 exit Topsfield Road Topsfield, Boxford, MA 053 exit Route 97 Topsfield, Georgetown, MA 054 exit Route 133 Georgetown, Rowley, MA 055 exit Central Street Byfield, Newbury, MA 056 exit Scotland Road Newbury, West Newbury, MA 057 exit Route 113 West Newbury, Newburyport, MA 058 exit Route 110 to I495 Salisbury, Amesbury[10], Welcome Center 90 Mile Marker (Southbound) Salisbury MA, Rest Area MA 46 Mile Marker (Northbound) Lexington MA, Rest Area MA 38 Mile Marker (Southbound) Newton MA, Rest Area MA 27 Mile Marker (Southbound) Westwood MA, Rest Area MA 10 Mile Marker (Northbound) Mansfield MA. Route 3 leaves the Artery just before the Zakim bridge via Exit 26, and U.S. Route 1 leaves the Artery just after the bridge, via Exit 27 (no southbound access). Miles, From I-95/128 in Burlington to NH Border, Exits 42.42917N 71.10333W By 2005, the chronically congested four-lane road, largely with antiquated ramps around Lowell, was widened to six lanes (as it had been in Nashua, New Hampshire, a few years prior) with a breakdown lane on both the left and right sides of the road, and many interchanges were modernized in what was comically known as "The Big Wide", in reference to Massachusetts' other "Big" construction project (the Big Dig). Northbound; . The section of old Route 3 from Cedarville south to the Sagamore Rotary near the Cape Cod Canal in Bourne is unnumbered.