H is for hydrant.


Southbound in the Mixed-Up Mile, which is terribly mixed up for RI 114. 114 SB comes into the area on RI 15, then turns onto Broadway (US 1 SB) before crossing I-95 to Underwood St. It jogs to Summit St. via Walcott St., and that's it. RI 114 NB comes up Summit and jogs to Underwood, still no trouble. Then when it gets to 15 at Exchange St., instead of staying on Exchange to get back to Broad St. and the rest of RI 114, it inexplicably turns left, ONTO RI 114 South! The two halves of the route then split from each other in the only instance in the world of a wrong-way self multiplex, and 114 North makes its way through the one-way maze of downtown Pawtucket back to Broad St. It's no surprise, then, that RIDOT screwed up and put a right arrow in the second photo instead of a left arrow for RI 114 SB; also, that is a Massachusetts shield, since there's no state name. I can't call the first photo a screwup, but it sure looks screwy.


Southbound heading toward the Mile - since I-95 is a freeway, it's probably the easiest exit from the area once you get stuck in the endless circling.


Very old RIPTA bus station shield, Broad St. NB where RI 114 and RI 123 turn right to finish their duplex on Dexter St.


RIDOT encourages bad behavior. The first sign is on High St. SB at Blackstone St. in Cumberland, where RI 114 continues straight to Dexter St. If you do turn, you get the beautiful old shield in the second photo on Blackstone St., but it's wrong, all wrong.


Wrong for a different reason. RIDOT loves the one-piece assemblies, but either don't draw the outline for the direction, or widen the assembly and put NORTH on the left and SOUTH on the right.


Northbound through the I-295 interchange. The first 3di shield is ugly even by RIDOT standards - way too bubbly.

EWW EWW EWW EWW EWW! (on NB 114)


Welcome to the world of Woonsignage! Woonsocket is unique in the U.S. in not only signing directions within the shield (which Providence has also done), but also adding arrows as well. The signage is consistently good, but sometimes the R.I. is missing, and sometimes it's above the direction instead of below. These are all old signs (the last sign is quite old, and in Woonsocket, but not Woonsignage), but new ones still have the same characteristics.


NB and SB respectively, and you can see the new signage in the second photo. This has become the standardized Woonsignage (as standard as it gets, anyway). I'm not sure where Woonie found the directional plates in the first pic; they probably slapped them together after realizing there was no room to put them on the shield directly.

On SB 114.

RI 103 and RI 114/103
US 1A and the RI 114/US 1A duplex (scroll to the bottom)

Onto US 1
Onto I-95
Onto I-295
To RI 146
Onto RI 122
Into Woonsocket
RI 114 East Shore Expressway on Steve Anderson's bostonroads.com
Back to Rhode Island Roads
Back to Roads