U.S. Route 1 in Massachusetts

U.S. Highway 1 ( U.S. 1 short ) is a highway that runs in a north -south direction over a total length of 3846 km along the U.S. East Coast through several states from Florida to Maine. In Massachusetts, the route begins in the south at the border with Rhode Iceland in the city of Attleboro and runs north through Boston continue to the city of Salisbury to the state border with New Hampshire.

The route south of Boston is also performed under the name Boston - Providence Turnpike, while some sections are north of the city as the Northeast Expressway and the Newburyport Turnpike known.

Route

The U.S. 1 Coming crossed the state border of Rhode Iceland in Attleboro and then runs largely parallel to I-95 through the towns of North Attleborough, Plainville, Wrentham, Foxborough, Walpole, Sharon, Norwood and Westwood.

From there, the route is identical to the I- 95 to the junction with I-93, with which it is identical to the Boston downtown Canton. Immediately after crossing the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge to U.S. 1 again separates from Interstate 93 and crosses the Tobin Bridge as Northeast Expressway through the towns of Chelsea, Revere, Malden, Melrose, Saugus and Lynnfield.

From Lynnfield U.S. 1 again leads parallel to I-95 through Peabody, Danvers, Topsfield, Ipswich, Rowley, Newbury, Newburyport and Salisbury before they crossed the state line into New Hampshire.

History

The U.S. 1 was built in Massachusetts during the 1930s in several sections, built with both new and existing routes have been extended. Much of the highway was initially two or three tracks in each direction and was expanded in the course of the following years to its present proportions. The route leads partly on the former components of the Lower Post Road.

Turnpikes

The majority of U.S. 1 consists of the two former toll roads Norfolk and Bristol Turnpike and Newburyport Turnpike. The older roads open to the turnpikes had been designed as a bypass roads that form today to much of the Massachusetts Route 1A.

Massachusetts Route C1

In the early 1930s, the Route C1 has been reported as an alternative route to U.S. 1 through the city center of Boston, where the letter "C" for City Street (English City route ) and is almost exclusively in the Boston environment was used. The C1 led along Brookline Avenue, Beacon Street, now Route 28, Charles Street, Lowell Street, Merrimac Street and Cross Street to the western end of the Sumner Tunnel.

In East Boston, the route went further over the Porter Street and Chelsea Street on today's Route 1A. With the opening of Storrow Drive and the Central Artery in the 1950s, the C1 was moved so that it was partly located on these new roads. In 1971, the C1 was dissolved, the part south of the Charles River was north of the river allocated mainly U.S. 1 and the part for the most part of Route 1A. The course of U.S. 1 was later shifted to the Southeast Expressway, so that today south of the river has the former range of C1 no numbering.

Relocation of the route in Boston

The U.S. was one of the metropolitan area of ​​Boston until the late 1970s a replacement for the originally planned route of I-95 along the North East Expressway north of the city center. In the late 1980s, the U.S. 1 was moved in anticipation of the World Cup 1994 on I-93, so that the old route on the VFW Parkway, Jamaicaway, Riverway and Storrow Drive through Dedham, Brookline, West Roxbury and other Boston neighborhoods since then no longer numbered.

Northeast Expressway

The Northeast Expressway is located north of Boston city center, and runs from the intersection of I- 93 and U.S. 1 in Charlestown over the Mystic River by Chelsea and Revere. While he is elevated at the start, it runs at ground level from the northern Chelsea and ends at the border between Revere and Saugus.

Originally saw the plans before, the road to the north of Saugus starting to extend over Lynn and Lynnfield to Peabody, to terminate at the present intersection of I - 95 and Route 128 in Peabody. From 1955 to 1973, the track was recorded in anticipation of the expansion but ultimately never took place as I-95.

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