doctor-rumack t1_iupfulr wrote on November 2, 2022 at 1:33 AM

Reply to comment by brick1972 in Why was Route 95 sited where it is in Providence? by HistoricalDocument11

> but 95 doesn’t go through Boston.

Interesting, indeed. 95 was supposed to continue into Boston from where it abruptly "ends" in Canton at the 93/128 interchange. That stretch would’ve been 695 and it would’ve met I-93 at the Central Artery. It would’ve gutted the city worse than it already is, and displaced thousands of residents of mostly poor neighborhoods. There was a lot of opposition to it, and no true backup plan ever materialized. This is why the most heavily traveled interstate on the east coast turns into a single lane off-ramp that routes itself onto a state highway outside of one of the nation’s largest metropolitan areas.

frenetix t1_iurk5uv wrote on November 2, 2022 at 2:41 PM

There are still places where you can see where parts of the connecting roads are still visible. Like at the 93/128 interchange, and the 3/128 interchange in Burlington, and the offramps to nowhere on the elevated highway north of Boston.

We've got these in Rhode Island, like at the eastern side of the Henderson Bridge, and the Rte 1/138 interchange.