WB and EB at the Massachusetts line. W is for Winchendon and R is for Rindge.


EB from there. Contrast the new and old shields and ignore NH's practice of signing every junction as if you're not on the route. In this case, I'm on both routes, so it's doubly wrong.

Every state gets one mistake? (Still EB.)


Another EB concurrency, another unnecessary "JUNCTION". At least in the third photo, I'm not already on 9.


The US 202/NH 9 EB multiplex starts off as a bypass of Hillsborough, new at the beginning of this millennium. (If this webpage survives till the year 3000, remind me to change this caption.) I don't care how new the sign is, replace it.


New York and Vermont have frequent, relatively easily understood little reference markers along their routes. New Hampshire has a few of these left, but they're difficult to decipher because of their infrequency. It may have been a failed attempt to try to improve on or imitate what the other states were doing.

Now into Concord.


1960's shields? WB and EB in western Concord; click on each for a closeup.


US 202/NH 9 EB at US 3. But that looks like a 4. It should be 3/202/9 TO 4.


US 202 leaves NH 9 briefly to meet US 4 and follow I-393. Since I've driven I-393, I came back to see what NH 9 had to offer and was greeted by these old signs. The Interstate shield is of particular note, so click on this photo for a closeup of it.


And here, US 202 leaves US 3 NB. It also joins US 4, so there should be another shield on this sign.


East of I-393, US 202 is now joined with US 4 and once again NH 9, so every multiplex looks crowded. And you still can't junction the routes you're already on, even when you're on four of them at once.


See, the older signs don't have JUNCTION on them because they know that's wrong. Good signs. After this, US 202 joins NH 16 and NH 11 to the Maine state line, so the page ends here and follow the links below for more.

Onto NH 9 alone
Onto NH 16 and US 202/NH 16
Onto NH 11 and US 202/NH 11

Into Massachusetts on US 202
Into Maine on US 202
Onto US 3
Onto US 4
To I-93
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