Those traveling along Interstate 93 between Methuen and Boston will soon see exit numbers changing as the state follows a federal mandate to renumber exits to match mile markers. Local sign installations are scheduled to begin next Monday, May 10, nightly during overnight hours from 8 p.m.-5 a.m., between old exits 28 to 48, northbound […]
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Renumbering on I-93 is already underway and will begin north of Boston Monday. (Shutterstock)
ANDOVER, MA The renumbering of Interstate 93 exit signs between Boston and Methuen is due to begin Monday, six months after it began across the state.
Renumbering between old exit 13 to exit 27, between Dorchester and the Tip O Neill Tunnel, was underway as of Thursday.
Work will proceed between old exit 28 and 48 beginning Monday and could take up to four weeks, officials with the Massachusetts Department of Transportation said.
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Sign installation will take place between 8 p.m. and 5 a.m. each night.
The project will switch current exit numbers to ones based on mileage, bringing the state in line with federal highway mandates. Massachusetts, Delaware and New Hampshire are the only three states to not have started work on converting to a mileage-based system.
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All it took was a global pandemic.
As vehicle traffic plunged across the world in the midst of the COVID-19 pandemic, Boston saw one of the more dramatic drops in congestion of any city in the United States, according to the 2020 edition of INRIX’s annual scorecard released Tuesday.
The Boston metro area still had the fourth-worst traffic in the nation in 2020. But after twostraight years with the ignominious distinction as the country’s most congested city, Boston drivers spent 68 percent fewer hours in traffic in 2020, dropping the city behind New York City, Philadelphia, and Chicago in the rankings.
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BOSTON - The historic Hoosac Tunnel, running through the mountains between North Adams and Florida, is four-and-three-quarters miles long. The Big Dig s Tip O Neill Tunnel goes for a mile and a half under downtown Boston.
And the tunnel we unknowingly descended into sometime last winter when the novel coronavirus first arrived in Massachusetts? That one s measured not in miles but in months, and we still have a ways to go before coming out the other side, or even before knowing exactly how much of the trek remains.
But somewhere, off in the distance, is a faint glimmer, in the form of vaccines that will be complicated to distribute, require a bolstering of public trust and still have to work their way through the rest of the federal approval process.