Massachusetts Roads - MA 113/3A
, MA 113/3A
Despite the WB shield above, all photos below are EB except one.
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How not to make a shield: too narrow or wrong state.
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How not to make a shield: cut out without a border.
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How to make a bridge: rehabilitate it rather than demolish it. This is the Merrimack River crossing (Tyngsborough Bridge) of MA 113/3A getting a fresh coat of paint and some new steel.
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Two longing, loving looks westward as I depart the bridge.
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How not to make an assembly: with the signs in the wrong order and an unnecessary arrow oriented the wrong way.
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Continuing into the "Pawtucketville" section of Lowell. How not to spell Mammoth: Mammouth. "Rte" is also unnecessary.
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The beauty of Dracut, including an old mill on Beaver Brook.
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MA 113 turns left at Christ Church United, but Mass. forgot the "turns left" part. Better late than never.
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Curiously, the speed zone ends right at a traffic light, where MA 113 joins MA 110. They rotary under I-93 and then split at the next signal - although they'll rejoin later on the other side of Methuen and Lawrence (each route serves one of the two).
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EB at MA 213 Exit 4, where it looks as though the I-495 shield has been replaced, while the I-93 shield might be original.
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The one WB photo among all of these, approaching MA 97 and the Merrimack River crossing into Haverhill. Photos are on the MA 97 page, linked below.
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Leaving the I-95 interchange. With a closeup like this, I must have gotten out of the car, so there must be something to see there.
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Here's what there is to see. What, doesn't look like anything? It's the former exit ramp terminal from I-95 NB - but the former I-95. For whatever reason, MA built a new SB roadway and shifted NB over instead of just widening the two roads it already had. More photos are linked below.
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The tercentennial reappears in Newburyport, at Jefferson St. and after Rawson Ave.
Onto MA 97 and MA 113/97
Onto MA 3A alone
Walk down to abandoned I-95 NB
Onto US 3
Onto MA 110
Onto MA 213
To I-93
To I-495
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