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National Boards => General Highway Talk => Topic started by: Pete from Boston on August 31, 2013, 12:42:24 AM

Title: Most cardinal directions on one route
Post by: Pete from Boston on August 31, 2013, 12:42:24 AM
Obviously this question only has four possible answers, and I'm about to rule out two of them, but are there any places where more than three share the same route?  I almost hope not.

In Cambridge, MA, south/east/west of the Alewife Station intersection of 2 and Alewife Brook Parkway, there are three on one route:

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Title: Re: Most cardinal directions on one route
Post by: Kacie Jane on August 31, 2013, 12:52:00 AM
I'm inclined to think the answer is 3. I'm sure this topic has come up here before, and I think the consensus was that if a four-way concurrency did exist, it doesn't anymore.

But examples of three-way concurrencies are surprisingly numerous.
Title: Re: Most cardinal directions on one route
Post by: hbelkins on August 31, 2013, 01:11:55 AM
Eons ago, someone on MTR posted an example of all four directions at one time, and I want to think it was in Massachusetts. However, searches of MTR yield nothing because apparently the poster had "no-archive" enabled and DejaNews, Google's forerunner for Usenet searches, therefore didn't archive it.
Title: Re: Most cardinal directions on one route
Post by: NE2 on August 31, 2013, 03:12:35 AM
HB always replies with the same story, and I'm inclined to think either he misinterpreted the post or the original author misinterpreted a sign.
Title: Re: Most cardinal directions on one route
Post by: hbelkins on August 31, 2013, 11:53:36 AM
Quote from: NE2 on August 31, 2013, 03:12:35 AM
HB always replies with the same story, and I'm inclined to think either he misinterpreted the post or the original author misinterpreted a sign.

Possibly the latter, because I remember the original MTR poster included the route numbers and direction of travel. And I remember finding the location on the map.