Interstate 495 (Massachusetts)
Interstate 495 (abbreviated I-495 ) is a as a beltway around the metropolitan area of Greater Boston around -scale interstate highway in the state of Massachusetts in the United States. By the year 1996, when the until then as PA Route 9 designated portion of the Pennsylvania Turnpike was re- designated as Interstate 476 and this so long by 11 mi ( 17.7 km ) made as the I- 495, she was having a length of 120.74 mi ( 194.3 km ) the longest relief route of its kind in the United States.
The I -495 runs from its southern access to Interstate 195 and Route 25 in Warham to Interstate 95 in northern Salisbury. The highway here describes an arc with a radius of about 30 mi ( 48.3 km ) measured from Boston city center and crosses while a total of eight radial highways: Interstate 93, U.S. Route 3, Massachusetts Route 2, Interstate 290, Interstate 90 ( Massachusetts Turnpike ), Massachusetts Route 24 and twice the Interstate 95 the section from Route 24 to I- 195 was formerly designated as Route 25, but only east of I -195 begins today.
The I -495 is often regarded as the outer boundary of the metropolitan region of Greater Boston. In the north, the road runs along the border with New Hampshire and comes this close in places up to 400 ft ( 121.9 m), while its southern end lies directly north of Cape Cod. West of I-495 begin the environment of Worcester and the region of Central Massachusetts. The route of the Massachusetts Route 128 is usually in tandem with the first, 6.5 mi ( 10.5 km ) long section of Interstate 93 that runs parallel to I- 495, but closer to the city limits, as the outer boundary of the immediate Boston suburbs viewed.
The section of the I-495 north and east of Massachusetts Route 2 to the end of the track in Salisbury is in addition to a nationally important and busy link road between the communities of the Merrimack Valley region.
Route
Interstate 495 begins as a direct continuation of the Massachusetts Route 25 at the intersection with Interstate 195 in West Wareham. The road has to start on two tracks in both directions, while a third track from the junction with Massachusetts Route 24 will be added. The route roughly in the north- west by the municipalities of Rochester and Middleboro, where they on U.S. Highway 44 meets before with crossing the Taunton River in Raynham crosses the boundaries of Bristol County. From there it leads to six lanes further from Bridgewater.
The route runs through the municipalities of Taunton, Norton and Mansfield, where she worked with the Massachusetts Route 140 is at an exit briefly identical. The I -495 merges with their regular route, I-95, on the border of Mansfield in Bristol County and Foxborough in Norfolk County. From there, the route goes through Plainville, where there is a connection to U.S. Highway 1, which is often used by motorists with the objectives Gillette Stadium or Wrentham. The Interstate approaches to within 2 mi (3.2 km) of the border with Rhode Iceland before it turns north and passes through the towns of Franklin and Bellingham.
From this point, the I-495 where the I-495 meanders along the border line from the eastern Worcester County to the western Middlesex County through the municipalities of Milford, Hopkinton ( where there is access to the Massachusetts Turnpike ), Westborough, Southborough, Marlborough (on the U.S. Highway 20 and Interstate 290 applies), Hudson, Berlin, Bolton (where the route begins to turn to the northeast ) and Harvard.
The I -495 now runs exclusively in the area of Middlesex County and passes through the towns of Boxborough, Littleton (where there is a connection to Route 2 ), Westford and Chelmsford. Are the connections to the U.S. Highway 3 and the Lowell Connector to the city limits of Lowell. The route runs through Lowell through Tewksbury further before they reached in Andover, where there is a connection to Interstate 93, the area of Essex County.
From there, the road leads to Lawrence, where it turns to the north and the Shawsheen River crossing. About North Andover the road over the Merrimack River runs back to Lawrence. In Methuen the route turns to the junction with Massachusetts Route 213 again to the northeast and passes through Haverhill (where it approaches to 150 yd ( 137.2 m) to the border with New Hampshire), Bradford, Merrimac and Amesbury before at its northern end in Salisbury approximately 1.5 mi ( 2.4 km ) before the state border combines with Interstate 95.