and US 4/NH 10

Just across from Vermont, US 4 encounters NH 10, with which it multiplexes. For US 4 in New Hampshire, multiplexing is the name of the game. If you couldn't tell, the shield atop this page is in the same vicinity.


Distraught by the loss of the Old Man in the Mountain, New Hampshire gives up on its route shield and starts erecting rectangles. They're so distraught, they forgot to keep the arrow separate or to put in a hyphen between 12 and A. That's the best I can do to explain this cheap, insufficient eastbound signage.


NH 12-A northbound, which ends here, does a much better job at that intersection. The only blemish in either of these photos (the white background are old, and the tiny directional banners are neat) is in the lower right-hand corner of the second one, which is the US 4 WB/NH 10 NB version of the 4E/10S signs above.


Ah, well, New Hampshire makes up for it with these signs just past the intersection. What, now squares without Old Men in Mountains are suddenly good? Yes, when they're so old they predate those Men.


Speaking of predating things, there hasn't been a Business Loop I-89 in generations. When it existed, it crossed the Connecticut River with US 4, thus being one of the few two-state business routes of any kind. When this sign existed, Doug Kerr took this photo, and after he donated it to my collection, it disappeared forever.


Still eastbound, I'm guessing that the original I-89 shield faded so badly it had to get patched over... but why couldn't NHDOT come up with a similar-size shield?


Jumping a bit, we head north of Concord, where US 4 is now multiplexed with I-93. The reason US 4 took so long to get a page on my website is because it's always getting multiplexed with roads like this. US 202 has the same problem, and naturally, US 4 and US 202 do indeed multiplex for the entire length of I-393... and along NH 9, which, yup, had its own page before US 4 got this one.


Speaking of which, here's I-393/US 202/US 4 EB approaching NH 9, where the US highways lose their Interstate status.


East of that point, the three routes are all together for a stretch, so they all get to appear on the same signs. Just because there are four routes together at once doesn't mean you can junction all four of them. In fact, you can junction none because of the definition of junction. NH 43 goes to the right and US 202/NH 9 head left here.

Onto NH 16 and the 16/US 4 duplex
Onto NH 10 alone

Into Vermont on US 4
Down NH 12-A to plain NH 12
Onto I-89
Onto I-93
Onto US 202
Onto NH 9
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