I-695 in Boston, I-78 in NYC, and Somerset Freeway to finally get built!

[Henry]

April Fools!

[Perfxion]

I-78 is in NYC. Just too easy to see it as a prank thread

[dgolub]

I-78 is in NYC. Just too easy to see it as a prank thread

I assume he was talking about the extension across Manhattan and through Brooklyn and Queens to the Bronx that was never built, not the New York side of the Holland Tunnel.

[cpzilliacus]

Forgot I-95 through the District of Columbia.

[PHLBOS]

Forgot I-95 through the District of Columbia.

Or the missing pieces of I-95 in the Greater Boston area (inside 128).

[Henry]

Forgot I-95 through the District of Columbia.

Or the missing pieces of I-95 in the Greater Boston area (inside 128).

I meant those too (plus I-695 and I-895 in Philly, as well as I-70, I-83 and I-170 in Baltimore), but the thread title would've been way too long.

I-78 is in NYC. Just too easy to see it as a prank thread

I assume he was talking about the extension across Manhattan and through Brooklyn and Queens to the Bronx that was never built, not the New York side of the Holland Tunnel.

I was.

[froggie]

Would've been far more effective to pick one and do a quick write-up about it.  As Perfxion noted, too easy to see this as a prank.

[hotdogPi]

I-695:

All of MA 203
Straight from MA 203 end to Soldiers Field Rd./Mass Pike interchange
Soldiers Field Rd. from Mass Pike to Eliot Bridge
US 3 from Eliot Bridge to MA 2A
MA 16 from MA 2A to east end

Exit numbers:

1: I-93/MA 3A
2: Granite Ave.
3: Dorchester Ave.
4: Morton St.
5: MA 28
6: American Legion Highway
7: Forest Hills St.
8A: Washington St.
8B: South St.
9: Centre St.
10: Pond St.
11: Perkins St.
12: Cypress St.
13: MA 9
14: Washington St.
15: Beacon St.
16: US 20
17: Mass Pike/Soldiers Field Rd.
18: Cambridge St.
19: Western Ave.
20: N Harvard St.
21: Soldiers Field Rd.
22: Greenough Blvd.
23: US 3 South/MA 2 East
24: MA 16 West
25: Concord Ave.
26: MA 2 West
27: MA 2A, US 3 North
28: Mystic Valley Parkway
29: MA 38 North
30: MA 38 South
31: I-93
32: MA 28
33: Rivers Edge Dr.
34: MA 99
35: Everett Ave.
36: US 1
37: MA 107
38: MA 145
39: MA 1A

Divided highways automatically get A and B exits.

(Note: I used Google Maps for this.)

[Pete from Boston]

I-695:

All of MA 203
Straight from MA 203 end to Soldiers Field Rd./Mass Pike interchange
Soldiers Field Rd. from Mass Pike to Eliot Bridge
US 3 from Eliot Bridge to MA 2A
MA 16 from MA 2A to east end

Exit numbers:

1: I-93/MA 3A
2: Granite Ave.
3: Dorchester Ave.
4: Morton St.
5: MA 28
6: American Legion Highway
7: Forest Hills St.
8A: Washington St.
8B: South St.
9: Centre St.
10: Pond St.
11: Perkins St.
12: Cypress St.
13: MA 9
14: Washington St.
15: Beacon St.
16: US 20
17: Mass Pike/Soldiers Field Rd.
18: Cambridge St.
19: Western Ave.
20: N Harvard St.
21: Soldiers Field Rd.
22: Greenough Blvd.
23: US 3 South/MA 2 East
24: MA 16 West
25: Concord Ave.
26: MA 2 West
27: MA 2A, US 3 North
28: Mystic Valley Parkway
29: MA 38 North
30: MA 38 South
31: I-93
32: MA 28
33: Rivers Edge Dr.
34: MA 99
35: Everett Ave.
36: US 1
37: MA 107
38: MA 145
39: MA 1A

Divided highways automatically get A and B exits.

(Note: I used Google Maps for this.)

I know I'm not supposed to make obvious statements like this, but what you just described would be the most expensive real estate acquisition of any highway ever built, would level the heart of quite a few thriving neighborhoods, and would bring about the end of several historic and cherished park areas.

I know, I know — I should try harder to look at the bright side of things. 

[Zeffy]

I know I'm not supposed to make obvious statements like this, but what you just described would be the most expensive real estate acquisition of any highway ever built, would level the heart of quite a few thriving neighborhoods, and would bring about the end of several historic and cherished park areas.

I know, I know — I should try harder to look at the bright side of things.

I'm sure that's what the people from Mercer and Somerset Counties said that ultimately got the Somerset Freeway shelved.

[Pete from Boston]

I know I'm not supposed to make obvious statements like this, but what you just described would be the most expensive real estate acquisition of any highway ever built, would level the heart of quite a few thriving neighborhoods, and would bring about the end of several historic and cherished park areas.

I know, I know — I should try harder to look at the bright side of things.

I'm sure that's what the people from Mercer and Somerset Counties said that ultimately got the Somerset Freeway shelved.

Except that the route above has hundreds of thousands of people living within walking distance of it, so many, many more people would be saying it.

That being said, I'd have paid money to see the reaction if this routing were publicized as an April Fool's story.  Not very much money, though.