John F. Fitzgerald Expressway

The John F. Fitzgerald Expressway ( Central Artery also ) is a section of a freeway in downtown Boston, Massachusetts in the United States. He was named after John F. Fitzgerald and is also designated as Interstate 93, U.S. Highway 1 and Massachusetts Route 3 The Expressway was originally built in the 1950s as a partly elevated, partly guided by the tunnel route, runs but today almost exclusively through tunnels that were built as part of the Big Dig and the former overground running Central Artery laid in the ground.

The former, overground running track was before the conversion as " suffering ", " biggest car park in the world" or even - mainly due to their green support beams -. Than " the second green monster " known [NB 1] Following the demolition of the above ground road be replaced with the Rose Kennedy Greenway.

The highway runs from the connection to Massachusetts Avenue at Andrew Square in South Boston district from south to north to the junction of U.S. Highway 1 in the Charlestown neighborhood. Together with the tunnels beneath Boston Harbor and the portion of the Massachusetts Turnpike from the Massachusetts Route 128 to East Boston the John F. Fitzgerald Expressway is part of the Metropolitan Highway System.

History

The highway itself was planned in the 1920s. The overground run Central Artery was built in two sections. From 1951 to 1954, the portion north of the High Street was built up on the Tobin Bridge. Immediately after the completion of the residents began to develop a strong distaste for the road, as they divided the neighborhoods of each other and was visually unappealing. Due to this development, the second, southern part of the highway was underground through the Dewey Square Tunnel. As part of the Big Dig, then the northern portion of the newly constructed Thomas P. O'Neill Jr. Tunnel relocated and demolished the aboveground end street. The Dewey Square Tunnel is therefore the only portion of the original Central Artery, which was not demolished.

The volume of traffic on the highway increased over the years continuously, which can be, among other things due to the fact that other highway projects, which should complement and relieve the Central Artery, were never realized. This includes especially the completely planned but never built Interstate 695 Although it was also before the Big Dig some renovation work on the northern section of the road carried out, but the problems were never satisfactorily resolved.

Exits

On the Central Artery exits were not numbered at the time of opening of the line. Only in 1974 a numbering system was introduced as part of the designation as Interstate 93. Due to the successful over time multiple conversions today causes some special.

Thus, the exits 19, 21 and 25 were completely removed. The exits 20 and 26 were divided into northern and southern direction: Today's Exit 20 in north direction is located on the site of the old exit 19, in the south direction it starts at the output of the Dewey Square Tunnel. The exit 26 north direction begins shortly after the tunnel exit to the Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge, as she lies in a southerly direction in the Charlestown neighborhood between exits 28 and 27 and leads to the Leverett Circle Connector Bridge.

By 2004, exit 22 existed as access to Chinatown, but was then closed with the completion of the work of the Big Dig. The Scollay Square leading to exit 23, there are both north and south direction, while the Exit 24 leads to Haymarket Square and the Callahan Tunnel.

Classification

The Central Artery today reported its entire length at the same time as Interstate 93 and U.S. Highway 1. The Massachusetts Route 3 also runs on the Central Artery, this leaves but in a northerly direction at Exit 26

In their history of the John F. Fitzgerald Expressway had already been a number of different road classifications. After its establishment, the section between Sumner Tunnel and Storrow Drive was reported as Massachusetts Route C1 and Massachusetts Route C9, where the " C" for "city routes " of the U.S. Highways 1 and the Massachusetts route was 9, which of the narrow city streets had been removed. The rest of the highway remained without classification, however, was south of the Sumner Tunnel accompanied in parallel by the Massachusetts Route C37.

Around 1969 the entire Central Artery was designated as Interstate 95, as it was intended to guide them through the city center. In 1971, the C- routes were removed and the old route C1 on the new route of the U.S. Highway 1 In the same year the route 3 also placed on the range of Artery south of Storrow Drive.

In 1974 it was decided that the I-95 but not to lead through the city center, but around the city and this partly to use the existing Massachusetts Route 128. U.S. Highway 1 was carried out so that he could use the Tobin Bridge and the North East Expressway, which was previously reported as part of I-95. The U.S. 1 therefore took advantage of the Artery north of Storrow Drive, while her former section south of the Storrow Drive to the Sumner Tunnel as an extension of the Massachusetts Route 1A was reported. The I-93 was performed in the south of Charlestown on the Central Artery, the Southeast Expressway and Route 128 up to Canton. 1989 U.S. 1 were placed on its present course along the entire length of the artery and the Route 1A shortened to the Sumner Tunnel.

As part of the Big Dig new signs were installed, but only the identify I-93 to avoid irritation.