Massachusetts Route 28
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| Route 28 |
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| Length: | 151.93[1] mi (244.51 km) | ||||||||
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| Formed: | 1922 | ||||||||
| South end: |  US 6 in Eastham |
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| Major junctions: |
 Route 132 in Hyannis I-195 in Wareham  I-93/US 1 in Randolph Route 2 in Boston  I-95/Route 128 in Reading I-495 in Andover |
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| North end: |  NH Route 28 in Salem, NH |
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Route 28 is a nominally north-south route running from the New Hampshire state line, through Boston and the western reaches of Norfolk and Plymouth counties, and then west-to-east on Cape Cod, finally ending as a south-north section between Chatham and Orleans. Its original form was as a New England interstate route and it continues northward as New Hampshire Route 28. At a length of nearly 152 miles, Route 28 is the longest state numbered highway in Massachusetts.
Route 28 is supplanted by interstate highways throughout most of the state, and is used mainly as a secondary and local highway. Throughout Cape Cod, particularly in Hyannis and Yarmouth, it passes through heavy development and is the primary navigation route along the south side of the Cape. This causes congestion and gridlock, especially during the summer months, when traffic is at its heaviest. The dense development makes future plans to widen the highway difficult to impossible.
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[edit] Route description
Route 28 is a 2 lane undivided highway, with some 4 lane sections in populated areas and one freeway segment. Route 28 enters the state from New Hampshire at its northern terminus (where it continues as NH Route 28) at the city of Methuen. It then progresses on a south-southeast corridor through Boston, before entering Cape Cod via the Bourne Bridge. It subsequently traverses the southern part of Cape Cod, terminating near the Orleans-Eastham town line where it connects to US 6 at the Orleans Rotary.
[edit] Routing in Boston
[edit] Towns along the route
[edit] History
Driving the entire length from New Hampshire to Orleans, the highway layout and design has not changed much since its construction and designation in the early 20th century. The exceptions are in Boston, where some of the original routing was changed over the years, and on the Cape, where a freeway section between Falmouth and Bourne was completed in the mid 1960s. The old routing for that section of 28 was renamed Route 28A.
Several bypasses of Route 28 have been built over the years, with Interstate 93 serving that function north of Boston and the combination of Route 24, the southern reaches of Interstate 495, and Route 25 doing so south of Boston to Cape Cod.
[edit] Miscellenea
- Directional signs on Route 28 on Cape Cod are continuously marked as North-South, which is confusing for unfamiliar drivers. One travelling on Route 28 southbound is actually going northeast from Falmouth to Mashpee, east from Mashpee to Chatham, and north from Chatham to the Orleans-Eastham border.
[edit] Exit list
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[edit] Embankment Road
[edit] Route 28 Expressway
[edit] See also
- Route 28 (New England)
- Route 28A - alternate route between West Falmouth and Pocasset (originally part of Route 28 before freeway bypass)
