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Boston Map overlay site (historical, Inner Belt plans, etc.): mapjunction.com
kurumi:
https://alpha.mapjunction.com/?lat=42.3436004&lng=-71.1117688&clipperX=0.7296977&clipperY=0.5708245&map1=google.SATELLITE&map2=mosaic.mapwarperlayer488&zoom=14.2017655&mode=overlay&b=0.000&p=0.000
Above is a link to the 1962 Inner Belt freeway plan overlaying current aerial view of Boston, with a slider to compare. Pan and zoom work as they do in Google Maps. You can select other maps dating back to the 17th century.
The Ghostbuster:
Interesting map layout website! I wonder if this could be done for other cities? Also, I know the MA 24 freeway was likely never proposed to extend beyond the MA 128 beltway, though if it did, I wonder where it would have intersected the Southwest Expressway? That seem likely the only logical terminus for this otherwise "fictional" extension.
Alps:
That just proves how detrimental 695 would have been to Cambridge.
DJ Particle:
Interesting. If Route 3 were to stay on the Central Artery until the northern part of the loop, then follow the loop until it turns onto its own freeway, I trust at that point the entire "Route 3" could be switched to US-3
Does that also mean MA-2 would terminate all the way over where it meets US-3?
Alps:
--- Quote from: DJ Particle on April 08, 2021, 11:34:50 PM ---Interesting. If Route 3 were to stay on the Central Artery until the northern part of the loop, then follow the loop until it turns onto its own freeway, I trust at that point the entire "Route 3" could be switched to US-3
Does that also mean MA-2 would terminate all the way over where it meets US-3?
--- End quote ---
US 3 was never going to be extended beyond Boston. It would have been decades ago if so. MA 2 would have continued in probably to the Inner Loop and terminated simultaneously with US 3. MA 3 would either have been signed around 695 back to SE Expwy. or would have been truncated to I-95 (had everything been built); my guess is the former because MA never gets rid of anything.
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