I-89 in Boston
Overview:
Route Description
The routes used are: Northwest Expressway, Vine Brook, a stretch of abandoned railway, Concord Turnpike, the existing US-3 route, tunnel under Fresh Pond, Eliot Bridge, Soldiers Field Road, Storrow Drive, and I-93 before leaving via the Pilgrims Highway
Why it is needed: The Francis Sargent paradigm.
The US-3 freeway was planned in the Yellow Book along with several other unbuilt freeways, some of which the planner of these freeways supports in modified form, and others not. The issue is that after the revolts and the moratorium, nothing less destructive and more mindful was put in place to replace it. Today, there are only two freeways that penetrate the 128 Beltway and enter Boston, I-93, and the Massachusetts Turnpike (I-90). This is a problem because most traffic from the North is forced onto I-93 and the few people that are willing to pay for the tolls are forced north or south to collect with West traffic and cause massive traffic jams. This route studies a part of a possible solution to that problem.
Block by Block Plan
Continued from wrong way concurrency with I-95
