That loop around Boston: 128 or 95?

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being from massachusetts

By cat (not verified) | Mon, 08/14/2006 - 11:25am

being from massachusetts most of my life i have adapted the new england approach, once something is known a certain way, it will always stay that way. period.

It is both

By Frito-Jay (not verified) | Mon, 08/14/2006 - 12:00pm

The name of the road is Yankee Division Highway. There are two routes, I-95 and MA-128, that follow this road before splitting apart (or ending) at each end of the Highway.

128, of course

By GMcGath (not verified) | Tue, 08/15/2006 - 12:31pm

128 is 2 to the 7th power, the number of bits in a really wide data bus, and the number of characters in the ASCII character set. It fits the highway's high-tech history.

You hadda bring up high tech, didn't you?

By adamg | Tue, 08/15/2006 - 12:57pm

Long-timers will recall when mini-computers walked the earth and the state renamed 128 "America's Technology Highway" at a ceremony on the roadside in Waltham, where they unveiled one of those big blue signs that do absolutely nothing to direct motorists (not unlike those "Entering Neponset Valley Watershed" signs further south - whenever I pass one I always wonder what I'm supposed to do with that information)

Then, of course, the veterans got all lathered up about how the damn commie pinkos on Beacon Hill were dissing the memories of the Yankee Division, so the state had to beat a hasty retreat and change "Highway" to "Region" on the sign, because, as somebody else has mentioned here, the official official name of the highway is the Yankee Division Highway.

pfft

By eeka | Tue, 08/15/2006 - 1:11pm

COMMUNITIES CONNECTED BY WATER

So when they built the next beltway further out ....

By Ron Newman | Tue, 08/15/2006 - 1:14pm

... shouldn't it have been Route 256, instead of 495?

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