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This change was supposed to be made starting in 2016 when a project to renumber all sequential numbered exits to those based on highway mileposts. [6] This project, though, was indefinitely postponed in the middle of 2016 until November 18, 2019, when MassDot confirmed that beginning in late summer 2020 the exit renumbering project would begin. [7]
The Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) oversees roads, public transit, aeronautics, and transportation licensing and registration in the US state of Massachusetts. It was created on November 1, 2009, by the 186th Session of the Massachusetts General Court upon enactment of the 2009 Transportation Reform Act.
However, this project was indefinitely postponed by MassDOT until November 18, 2019, when MassDOT confirmed that beginning in late summer 2020 the exit renumbering project will begin. [ 4 ] [ 5 ] Renumbering the exits along this highway started on January 6, 2021, and it was completed on January 19.
The $315-million (equivalent to $421 million in 2023 [8]) MassDOT Highway Division project widened the 14.3-mile (23.0 km), six-lane section of highway to eight lanes from north of Route 9 in Wellesley to Route 24 in Randolph. The project consisted of adding a lane on the inside of each carriageway, complete with a 10-foot (3.0 m) inside shoulder.
The Massachusetts Highway Department conducts an annual traffic data collection program. A traffic counting program is conducted each year by the Statewide Traffic Data Collection section of the Massachusetts Highway Department. This data is available online by autoroute and city/town list or as an interactive map.
In the early 2010s, the Massachusetts Department of Transportation (MassDOT) proposed a $137-million (equivalent to $187 million in 2023 [12]) project to widen the existing 2.4-mile (3.9 km) four-lane highway section to six lanes, from north of Route 99 in Saugus to south of Route 60 in Revere. The proposal consisted of adding a 12-foot (3.7 m ...
Several freeway projects in the Boston area planned as part of the Interstate Highway System were cancelled in the 1970s following community opposition, including the Inner Belt (I-695) and Southwest Expressway (I-95). [3]
Exit numbers on Route 3 were to be changed to those based on highway mileposts under a MassDOT project due to start in 2016, but this project was postponed. On November 18, 2019, MassDOT confirmed that, beginning in late summer 2020, the exit renumbering project will begin. [3] [4] The exit renumbering was done between December 1–14, 2020. [5]