How to get it wrong: US 6 in a MA-style state route shield (no "R.I.") and then a 3-digit SR shield.

US 6 is a surface road for most of RI, but is a freeway between I-295 and RI 10, and multiplexes with the latter for a mile or two before I-95. Welcome to those coming from the RI 10 page; your treasures await.


A one-piece assembly at the RI 116/US 6 intersection (with a blank banner for 116 instead of no directional banner at all), and some ugly signage at the eastern beginning of RI 101. RI/CT 101 to US 44 (with more alternatives once you get that far) is one of the best ways from Providence to Hartford.


Before 2003, RI 101 began in the middle of US 6 and ran around Scituate before splitting off. This photo was taken 21 years prior to that by Michael Summa.


US 6 EB turns into US 6A, the former surface routing of US 6, at I-295, and then one comes to these signs, both button-copy and thus very rare in RI. The new freeway (one exit south on I-295) was meant to have been part of I-84 at one time (see CT I-84 for more).


The WB button copy sign that goes with the two above, though it's on the freeway, and completely unnecessary since all traffic is being forced off here (obviously this sign was not created with that in mind). See the I-295/US 6 page (link at bottom) for more photos from here.


RI 10 SB and US 6 WB approaching their split.


RI 10 NB and US 6 EB approaching I-95 and the end of the freeway (and thus the end of RI 10). This area of Providence was heavily rebuilt in the past fifteen years, only serving to further entangle the 95/10/6 interchange mentioned above. The second sign is on the I-95 exit ramp that is also US 6 EB.


The WB exit ramp of what will become US 6/RI 10 (Memorial Blvd.), same basic signage as EB.


WB in Providence approaching the beginning of the RI 10/US 6 freeway, showing off downtown Providence overhead style. RI 10 just mysteriously begins at I-95, multiplexed with US 6 - this partially makes sense due to 10 being applied over the entire loop freeway, but in my opinion RI 10 should just end at the western junction with US 6.


Providence directional signage. There were two WEST 6's, two EAST 6's, and a WEST 44 as of early 2002 (and I have most of those on the site now).


More directional signage... with a twist. This road, Harris Avenue, hasn't been US 6 for about 20 years, and since it sits right next to the RI 10/US 6 freeway, you'd think RIDOT would have noticed this stray shield. But it's RIDOT we're talking about. US 6 and RI 10 flowed directly into Harris Ave. (check out the RI 10 page, link below, for some killer pics), and US 6 then turned, headed south a bit, and took a pair of ramps into what is now I-195. Those ramps are gone thanks to I-95, but not before the completion of the interchange you can see at the bottom of the I-95 page. Go check that out now as well.


RIDOT gets old and odd, eastbound on Warren Ave. in East Providence and then onto the onramp (also S. County St.). This is former US 6, but now 6 stays on I-195 until Exit 8 (it had been 7, but a pesky left ramp was removed from the East Shore Expressway and Exit 8 was converted to allow left turns).


Saving the Best for Last™, Broadway SB at Warren Ave. This is stupid because the I-195 WB onramp was two blocks ago, from Freeborn Ave. Oh, wait, this is I-I-195.

The I-295/US 6 interchange/stubs
The US 6/I-95/Providence interchange
I-195 and 195/US 6

Into CT on US 6
Into MA on US 6
Onto RI 116
Onto RI-CT 101
Onto I-295
Onto RI 10
Onto RI 14
Onto I-95
The US 6 freeway on Steve Anderson's bostonroads.com
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