MA 28 SB meeting US 6 at the MA 25 interchange, and a split perspective from MA 28 SB/US 6 EB (left signs) and Depot St. NB (right signs); NB/WB are a block away. MA 25 used to end just west of here at Maple Springs Rd., until it was extended over the Bourne Bridge. The big 25 sign on the left of the second photo may date from that extension.


MA 28 SB in Central Square, Bridgewater. Summer St. was slightly rejiggered to be 1-way NB for just one block, but it's enough to prevent 28 SB traffic from heading straight on MA 104 EB, and instead it has to go all the way around the square. The second old-font LGS is at Bedford St., as MA 28 exits Central Square with 18 along for the ride.


A pair of CT 28 shields invade Brockton.


SB in Randolph, where the arrow sign may be old but it's positively modern compared to the first sign. We're talking a very very tiny embossed cast-iron sign at Canton St., and if you're looking for roads that go to Dedham from Randolph, you're talking MA 128. As far as I can tell, old 128 followed Blue Hill Drive from the Greenlodge section of Dedham, then Green Lodge St., and then a no-longer-existent road across the Ponkapoag Golf Course to Canton St. This is of course conjecture, but it would explain this old sign. At the very least, even if this wasn't the pre-freeway routing of 128, Canton St. had to have had a spur through the golf course in order to get traffic to Dedham. Your thoughts welcomed.


SB at Centre St. and then at Randolph Ave. in Milton.


The left sign flipped upside-down, so I unflipped it for you. The assembly is on MA 28 SB at MA 138 SB. The sharper right, toward where the button copy points you, once led toward I-95, except, see, I-95 was never built past MA 128, so Mass. D. P. W. had to remove those letters.


Wooden sign face-down in the intersection that I temporarily rescued. It should die anyway, since MA 138 now ends here.


A look down Columbus St. in Boston, southward along MA 28.


Clarendon St. SB before Columbus St., and Beacon St. WB where MA 28 SB jogs left off of Storrow Drive before turning south through the streets of Boston. Apparently old signs on Beacon Street get forgotten easily.


At the base of the ramp from Storrow Drive WB at Beacon St., which is MA 28 SB.


Just north of the drawbridge, where MA 28 meets MA 3 EB and both Land Blvd. and the Gilmore Bridge. Notice I didn't mention Memorial Drive. That's because, unlike the MDC, I'm correct. To their credit, at least the MDC correctly signs 3 SB.


EB on Washington Street at MA 28. If you follow 28 to MA 38, you in fact will come quite close to I-93... but not US 1. The signs don't look like either MassHighway or MDC, so I'm stumped as to where they came from and where they intend for drivers to find 1. Continuing eastward to Sullivan Square and MA 99 (former US 1 way back when) would be a much better idea.


WB at the same MA 28 intersection. I'm not sure when this sign came from, but back in the 1960's there were a few experiments with blue, Euro-style signs. This seems newer than that, though, the same age as one in Davis Square.


Following MA 28 northward from the Leverett Circle to MA 38 takes you to these signs (28 runs near I-93, so it happens to intersect 38 at 93). Note the 3di-width shield on the LGS's. The first sign is on the NB ramp, and the second is on MA 38 SB right before it ends. That's right, MA 38 should not be signed straight ahead.


One more in the group, and an old business LGS, on the ramp from MA 28 SB that also takes traffic from I-93 NB to MA 38 NB.


In the first photo, MA 28 NB bears left to join the Fellsway, and to the right is a shortcut to MA 60 EB. In the second photo, the Fellsway meets MA 28; MA 28 SB is to the left, and the Fellsway runs to the right.


Bearing left above, you come to this old sign a block later.

Storrow Drive (Old US 1/MA 28)
Embankment Rd./Charles St., MA 28/MA 3 SB
Leverett Circle, MA 28/MA 3
Charles River Dam, MA 28/MA 3 SB

Onto US 6
To MA 25
To I-195
To I-495
Onto MA 138
To Rte 2
To Memorial Drive
Onto the Gilmore Bridge
Into Boston
Into Cambridge
To US 1
Onto I-93
Onto MA 60
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