NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Interstate 90 (Massachusetts)

The Massachusetts Turnpike is the easternmost 138-mile (222 km) stretch of Interstate 90. I-90 and the "Mass Pike" both begin at Logan International Airport in East Boston where they meet Route 1A. The Mass Pike then extends to the western border of the state at West Stockbridge where it ends. The roadway itself continues across the border into New York as I-90 and the Berkshire Connector portion of the New York State Thruway. Image File history File links I-90. ... ImageMetadata File history File links Mass-tpk-night. ... ImageMetadata File history File links Mass-tpk-night. ... Overpass in East Potomac Park, Washington, D.C. Flyover in Miami Beach, Florida An overpass (In UK, most Commonwealth countries flyover) is a bridge, road or similar structure that crosses over another road. ... For the unrelated Jesuit university in Chestnut Hill, see Boston College. ... Boston is a town and small port c. ... Prudential Tower in 1963, with construction not quite finished. ... Image File history File links mass pike logo File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Image File history File links mass pike logo File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ... Interstate 90 (abbreviated I-90) is the longest interstate highway in the United States at nearly 3,100 miles (5,000 kilometers). ... Logan International Airport with aircraft taking off over harbor Bostons Logan International Airport from the airside lounge of Terminal E, illustrating how the airport is largely surrounded by water. ... East Boston is a gritty blue-collar neighborhood that is separated from the rest of the city of Boston by Boston Harbor and bordered by Winthrop, Revere, and the Chelsea Creek. ... Massachusetts State Highway 1A is an uncommon bypass route of U.S. Highway 1 that extends from Boston, Massachusetts to Newburyport, Massachusetts. ... West Stockbridge is a town located in Berkshire County, Massachusetts. ... Official language(s) English de facto Capital Albany Largest city New York City Area Ranked 27th - Total 54,520 sq mi (141,205 kmÂ²) - Width 285 miles (455 km) - Length 330 miles (530 km) - % water 13. ... New York Thruway Trailblazer New York State Thruway (Interstate 87) looking east from Nordkop Mountain, Suffern, New York The New York State Thruway (officially the Governor Thomas E. Dewey Thruway) is a limited-access toll highway in the U.S. state of New York. ... New York Thruway Trailblazer New York State Thruway (Interstate 87) looking east from Nordkop Mountain, Suffern, New York The New York State Thruway (officially the Governor Thomas E. Dewey Thruway) is a limited-access toll highway in the U.S. state of New York. ...

Tolls

The Mass Pike is a toll road; it costs $4.60 for a Class 1 passenger vehicle to travel eastbound from Exit 1 (Route 41) in West Stockbridge to Logan Airport in Boston. From Exit 1 in West Stockbridge to Exit 14/15 (Route 128/I-95) in Weston, it is a closed system toll road, using a system of long-distance tickets, obtained once by a motorist upon entering and surrendered upon exiting at toll gates. The toll gates exist at all exits and entrances from Exit 1 up to Exit 14/15. From Exit 14/15 to its eastern terminus in East Boston, the Mass Pike is an open system toll road. There are toll plazas at Exit 18/19/20 in Allston, Massachusetts in both mainline directions and on the interchange ramps. There is also a toll plaza on the mainline at the westbound entrance to the Ted Williams Tunnel in East Boston. Exits 16 and 17 as well as 21 through 26 have no toll plazas on their ramps. A toll road, tollway, turnpike, pike or tollpike is a road on which a toll authority collects a fee for use. ... West Stockbridge is a town located in Berkshire County, Massachusetts. ... Logan International Airport with aircraft taking off over harbor Bostons Logan International Airport from the airside lounge of Terminal E, illustrating how the airport is largely surrounded by water. ... Nickname: City on the Hill, Beantown, The Hub of the Universe (The State House, according to Oliver Wendell Holmes, is the hub of the Solar System), Athens of America, The Cradle of Revolution Location in Massachusetts Counties Suffolk County Mayor Thomas M. Menino(D) Area - City 232. ... Route 128 is a circumferential or ring highway in eastern Massachusetts with Boston at its center and surrounded by the concentric Interstate 495. ... Interstate 95 is 92 miles in the state of Massachusetts. ... Seal of Weston, MA Weston is a town located in Middlesex County, Massachusetts. ... East Boston is a blue-collar neighborhood that is separated from the rest of the city of Boston by Boston Harbor and bordered by Winthrop, Revere, and the Chelsea Creek. ... Allston is a diverse neighborhood in the city of Boston, Massachusetts with a population which includes Boston natives, students from neighboring Boston University, Boston College, MIT and Harvard and various ethnic groups such as Chinese, Vietnamese, Brazilian, and Irish. ... The Ted Williams Tunnel (planned as the Third Harbor Tunnel, the Sumner and Callahan Tunnels being the first two) is the tunnel connecting South Boston with Bostons Logan International Airport. ... East Boston is a blue-collar neighborhood that is separated from the rest of the city of Boston by Boston Harbor and bordered by Winthrop, Revere, and the Chelsea Creek. ...

Toll plazas on the interchange ramps at Exit 16 were removed in 1996 at the direction of then Governor William Weld. 1996 (MCMXCVI) was a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... John Hancock, the first Governor The Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is the executive magistrate of the United States Commonwealth of Massachusetts. ... William Weld William Floyd Weld (born July 31, 1945) was the Republican Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts from 1991 to 1997, resigning to pursue the ambassadorship to Mexico. ...

Following protests from Western Massachusetts residents that their toll money was funding the Big Dig, a Boston highway project, tolls were removed on a western portion of the freeway in July, 1996. As such, no toll is charged for passenger vehicle travel between Springfield (Exit 6, Interstate 291) and the New York (Exit 1, West Stockbridge) border in either direction. Motorists can opt to pay their tolls using a toll booth operator or utilize the Fast Lane electronic toll collection system, whereby motorists install transponders on their cars (typically on the interior of their windshields) and use special lanes at the toll plazas that recognize the transponders and automatically withdraw the toll amount from the motorists' accounts. Fast Lane is compatible with the E-ZPass electronic toll collection system which is used throughout the northeast corridor. Western Massachusetts is a geographical region of the state of Massachusetts which contains the Berkshires and the Pioneer Valley. ... Big Dig is the unofficial name of the Central Artery/Tunnel Project (CA/T), a megaproject to reroute the Central Artery (Interstate 93), the chief controlled-access highway through the heart of Boston, Massachusetts, into a 3. ... Boston is a town and small port c. ... It has been suggested that Autobahn be merged into this article or section. ... Interstate 291 is a 5. ... Official language(s) English de facto Capital Albany Largest city New York City Area Ranked 27th - Total 54,520 sq mi (141,205 kmÂ²) - Width 285 miles (455 km) - Length 330 miles (530 km) - % water 13. ... Fast Lane is the electronic toll collection used in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, USA. The member agencies are the Massachusetts Turnpike (which also operates the Sumner Tunnel and Ted Williams Tunnel) and the Massachusetts Port Authority (which operates the Tobin Bridge). ... Many ETC systems use transponders like this one to electronically debit the accounts of registered cars without their stopping Transponder used in some Chilean freeways Electronic toll collection (ETC), an adaptation of military identification friend or foe technology, aims to eliminate the delay on toll roads. ... E-ZPass is the electronic toll collection system used on most toll bridges and toll roads in the eastern United States from Virginia to Maine, and recently extended into Illinois. ... Regional definitions vary The Northeastern United States is a region of the United States defined by the U.S. Census Bureau. ...

The return trip from Logan Airport costs $3 more, since the Ted Williams Tunnel has a toll only in the westbound direction. The Ted Williams Tunnel (planned as the Third Harbor Tunnel, the Sumner and Callahan Tunnels being the first two) is the tunnel connecting South Boston with Bostons Logan International Airport. ...

History

Plans for the Turnpike date back to at least 1948, when the Western Expressway was being planned. The original section would have connected Boston's Inner Belt to Newton with connections with US 20 and Route 30 for traffic continuing west. Later extensions would take the road to and beyond Worcester. From the beginning, the corridor was included in federal plans for the Interstate Highway System, stretching west to the New York state line and beyond to Albany. Image File history File links Masspike logo, from an October 1955 construction bulletin, scanned by David Slauenwhite. ... Image File history File links Masspike logo, from an October 1955 construction bulletin, scanned by David Slauenwhite. ... Portrait of Paul Revere by John Singleton Copley, c. ... 1948 (MCMXLVIII) was a leap year starting on Thursday (the link is to a full 1948 calendar). ... Nickname: Beantown, The Hub (of the Universe), Athens of America Location in Massachusetts Founded -Incorporated September 17, 1630 1820, as a city County Suffolk County Mayor Thomas Menino (Dem) Area - Total - Water 232. ... The Inner Belt was a project to construct a 6 lane, limited access highway through parts of Boston, Brookline, Cambridge, and Somerville. ... Newton, Massachusetts is a suburb west of Boston. ... United States Highway 20 is an east-west United States highway. ... Massachusetts Route 30 is an east-west arterial, connecting Grafton with Kenmore Square in Boston. ... Nickname: The Heart of the Commonwealth, The City of Seven Hills Location in the state of Massachusetts Founded -Incorporated 1673 {{{incorporated}}} County Worcester County Mayor Timothy P. Murray (Dem) Area - Total - Water 99. ... The Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, commonly called the Interstate Highway System, is a network of freeways in the United States. ... Official language(s) English de facto Capital Albany Largest city New York City Area Ranked 27th - Total 54,520 sq mi (141,205 kmÂ²) - Width 285 miles (455 km) - Length 330 miles (530 km) - % water 13. ... New York State Capitol Building, completed in 1899 at a cost of $25 million was the most expensive government building of its time. ...

Also included in the route was the planned Springfield Bypass, which had been proposed to provide a bypass of US 20 in the Springfield area. Part of this route (and that of the eventual Turnpike) used the grading from the never-opened Hampden Railroad. Similarly, the West Stockbridge Bypass provided a new route of Route 102 from Route 183 in Stockbridge west to Route 102 just east of the state line in West Stockbridge; this latter route was built prior to the Turnpike. United States Highway 20 is an east-west United States highway. ... Nickname: City of Homes Location in Massachusetts Founded -Incorporated May 14, 1636 County Hampden County Mayor Charles Ryan (Dem) Area - Total - Water 86. ... Stockbridge is a town located in Berkshire County in Western Massachusetts. ... West Stockbridge is a town located in Berkshire County, Massachusetts. ...

The Boston-Springfield Highway Authority was created in 1952, and was soon renamed the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority. Construction began in 1955, and the whole four-lane road from Route 102 at the state line to Route 128 in Weston opened on May 15, 1957. The Berkshire Thruway opened on May 26, 1959, connecting the west end to the New York State Thruway mainline south of Albany. Prior to its opening, traffic used Route 22 and US 20 in New York. 1952 (MCMLII) was a Leap year starting on Tuesday (link will take you to calendar). ... 1955 (MCMLV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Route 128, also known as the Yankee Division Highway (for the U.S. 26th Infantry Division), and originally the Circumferential Highway, is a partial beltway around Boston, Massachusetts, United States. ... Weston is a town located in Middlesex County, Massachusetts. ... May 15 is the 135th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (136th in leap years). ... 1957 (MCMLVII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The New York State Thruway (officially the Thomas E. Dewey Thruway) is a limited-access toll highway in the U.S. state of New York. ... May 26 is the 146th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (147th in leap years). ... 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... New York Thruway Trailblazer New York State Thruway (Interstate 87) looking east from Nordkop Mountain, Suffern, New York The New York State Thruway (officially the Governor Thomas E. Dewey Thruway) is a limited-access toll highway in the U.S. state of New York. ... New York State Capitol Building, completed in 1899 at a cost of $25 million was the most expensive government building of its time. ... Route 22 is the third longest New York State Highway. ... United States Highway 20 is an east-west United States highway. ...

After political and legal battles related to the Boston Extension inside Route 128, construction began on March 5, 1962, with the chosen alignment running next to the Boston and Albany Railroad and reducing that line to two tracks. In September 1964 the part from Route 128 east to exit 18 (Allston) opened, and the rest was finished on February 18, 1965, taking it to the Central Artery. March 5 is the 64th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (65th in leap years). ... 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (the link is to a full 1962 calendar). ... The Boston and Albany Railroad ( AAR reporting mark BA) was a railroad connecting Boston, Massachusetts to Albany, New York. ... 1964 (MCMLXIV) was a leap year starting on Wednesday (the link is to a full 1964 calendar). ... Allston is a diverse neighborhood in the city of Boston, Massachusetts with a population which includes Boston natives, students from neighboring Boston University, Boston College, MIT and Harvard and various ethnic groups such as Chinese, Vietnamese, Brazilian, and Irish. ... February 18 is the 49th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar. ... 1965 (MCMLXV) was a common year starting on Friday (the link is to a full 1965 calendar). ... The Central Artery, officially the John F. Fitzgerald Expressway, is a section of freeway in downtown Boston, Massachusetts, designated as Interstate 93, U.S. Highway 1 and Route 3. ...

The Interstate 90 label was assigned to the Turnpike in 1959 with the completion of plans for the Interstate Highway System. Early proposals took I-90 across the northern part of the state, along Route 2, but this was rejected as too costly. With the completion of the Boston Extension, that too was designated as I-90. Interstate 90 (abbreviated I-90) is the longest interstate highway in the United States at nearly 3,100 miles (5,000 kilometers). ... 1959 (MCMLIX) was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highways, commonly called the Interstate Highway System, is a network of freeways in the United States. ... Massachusetts State Highway 2, always referred to simply as Route 2, is a major East-West state highway in Massachusetts. ...

In 1991, construction began on the extension of the Mass Pike to Logan Airport, via the Ted Williams Tunnel as part of the Big Dig "mega" project. The final extension opened in 2003; the eastern end of I-90 now merges into Route 1A. FAA diagram of Logan Airport Edward Lawrence Logan International Airport, in the East Boston neighborhood of Boston, Massachusetts, is one of the 20 busiest airports in the U.S., with 22 million passengers a year using its 43 airlines. ... The Ted Williams Tunnel (planned as the Third Harbor Tunnel, the Sumner and Callahan Tunnels being the first two) is the tunnel connecting South Boston with Bostons Logan International Airport. ... Big Dig is the unofficial name of the Central Artery/Tunnel Project (CA/T), a megaproject to reroute the Central Artery (Interstate 93), the chief controlled-access highway through the heart of Boston, Massachusetts, into a 3. ... Massachusetts State Highway 1A consists of four alternate routes to U.S. Highway 1. ...

Controversy

Since 2001, the Turnpike Authority had come under fire from state politicians in a fight for control of the quasi-state agency. Beginning in 2001, former Massachusetts acting governor Jane Swift attempted to fire Christy Mihos, a former Turnpike board member and Jordan Levy, the current Vice Chairman of the board. Download high resolution version (1280x960, 222 KB)This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons, a repository of free content hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. ... Download high resolution version (1280x960, 222 KB)This is a file from the Wikimedia Commons, a repository of free content hosted by the Wikimedia Foundation. ... An old shield for the Sumner Tunnel, with the Masspike hat. ... 2001: A Space Odyssey. ... An acting governor is a constitutional position created in some U.S. states when the governor dies in office or resigns. ... Jane Maria Swift (born February 24, 1965) is an American politician from Massachusetts. ... Christy P. Mihos is an American politician and businessman from the U.S. state of Massachusetts. ... In relation to a company, a director is an officer of the company charged with the conduct and management of the affairs of the company. ... A chairman is the presiding officer of a meeting, organization, committee, or other deliberative body. ...

Mihos and Levy had cast votes on the board to postpone a toll hike. Swift objected, saying such a delay was “fiscally irresponsible” and saying the two men "interfered with the effective daily management of the Authority.” ^[1] ^[2] Mihos and Levy refused to step down and sued Swift to retain their positions. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) ruled that the Turnpike was “not part of the machinery of the government” and therefore not subject to Swift’s decisions. The Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (SJC) is the highest court in the United States Commonwealth of Massachusetts. ...

Governor of Massachusetts Mitt Romney, elected in 2002 during a fiscal crisis, ran on a platform of streamlining state government and eliminating waste. Part of this was the elimination of the Turnpike Authority. Romney wanted to fold the Turnpike into MassHighway, the state highway department, operated under the Executive Office of Transportation. A first step to this was to replace the Chairman of the Board, Matthew J. Amorello with someone loyal to the governor. The governor has the power to appoint members to the board, but the SJC advised in an Amicus brief that “nothing in G. L. c. 81A explicitly provides for the removal and reassignment of the chairperson to the position of "member.”” ^[3] ^[4] John Hancock, the first Governor The Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts is the executive magistrate of the United States Commonwealth of Massachusetts. ... Willard Mitt Romney (b. ... For album titles with the same name, see 2002 (album). ... The word platform is used in several different contexts including various topics: In rail transport, a railway platform is an area at a train station to alight from/embark on trains or trams. ... Definition and Explanation: Amicus curiæ (Latin for friend of the court; plural amici curiæ) briefs are legal documents filed by non-litigants in appellate court cases, which include additional information or arguments that those outside parties wish to have considered in that particular case. ...

The governor took the case to the court of the public opinion and put enormous pressure on Amorello to step down. Amorello announced he would do so in 2007, after Romney would have left office. Romney continued to press the legislature to give him the power to remove members from the board, specifically the chairman, pointing to a series of financial and construction mishaps over the last several years. However, the legislature instead sought to keep Amorello on board by extending the terms of various board members to prevent Romney from removing Amorello. ^[5] 2007 (MMVII) will be a common year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

In response to a fatality caused by a tunnel ceiling collapse on July 10, 2006, and in response to Amorello's refusal (at the time) to resign, Romney took legal steps to have Amorello forcibly removed as head of the Massachusetts Turnpike Authority, ^[6], culminating in Amorello's resignation on August 15, 2006. Image File history File links Wikinews-logo. ... Wikinews is a free-content news source and a project of the Wikimedia Foundation. ... July 10 is the 191st day (192nd in leap years) of the year in the Gregorian Calendar, with 174 days remaining. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... August 15 is the 227th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (228th in leap years), with 138 days remaining. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ...

On October 18, 2006, the Turnpike board voted to remove all tolls west of the 128 toll plaza in response to a recommendation made by Eric Kriss, a former fiscal adviser to the govenor, whom Romney asked to review the Turnpike situation following the July 2006 tunnel ceiling collapse. October 18 is the 291st day of the year (292nd in leap years). ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Eric A. Kriss Eric Arthur Kriss (1949 -) is a business and government leader. ...

On October 19, 2006 members of the Massachusetts Legislature Transportation Committee were quoted in the Boston Globe as saying that the governor's actions may require state law to be amended for the toll removal to happen. In addition, questions have been raised in regard to how the State would fund the maintenance of the Turnpike after the removal of the tolls. October 19 is the 292nd day of the year (293rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ... 2006 (MMVI) is a common year starting on Sunday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Official language(s) English Capital Boston Largest city Boston Area Ranked 44th - Total 10,555 sq mi (27,360 kmÂ²) - Width 183 miles (295 km) - Length 113 miles (182 km) - % water 13. ... The Boston Globe is the most widely circulated daily newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts and in the greater New England region. ...

The issue of the removal of the tolls is highly charged politically. Several members of the state Democratic Party declared this as a political maneuver to bolster the gubernatorial campaign of Republican Lt. Governor Kerry Healy, who was behind in the polls at the time of the announcement. Also, because the MTA Board is composed of appointees of Governor Romney, Mr. Kriss's former association with the Romney Administration and the ongoing election, the issue is clouded by accusations of partiality and political agendas from both sides of the aisle. The Democratic Party is one of two major contemporary political parties in the United States, the other being the Republican Party. ... This article is about the modern United States Republican Party. ... A Lieutenant Governor is a government official who is the subordinate or deputy of a Governor or Governor-General. ... Kerry Murphy Healey, Ph. ...

Exits

The Massachusetts Turnpike uses a system of sequential exit numbered interchanges. Since the time that the interchanges were originally numbered, more have been added, leading to situations like Exit 11, which is a minor state route, and 11A, which is a major Interstate Highway 10 miles away. Exit numbers on Interstate 4 in Volusia County, Florida. ... High-capacity freeway interchange in Los Angeles, California. ... Interstate Highways in the lower 48 states. ...

Also, near Boston, some of the interchanges are solely onramps and are not signed as exits, so, for instance, there is no "Exit 21" signed.

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Logan International Airport with aircraft taking off over harbor Bostons Logan International Airport from the airside lounge of Terminal E, illustrating how the airport is largely surrounded by water. ... The Ted Williams Tunnel (planned as the Third Harbor Tunnel, the Sumner and Callahan Tunnels being the first two) is the tunnel connecting South Boston with Bostons Logan International Airport. ... Image File history File links MA_Route_1A.svg 600 mm by 600 mm (24 in by 24 in) Massachusetts Route shield, made to the specifications of the 1996 edition of Construction and Traffic Standard Details (sign M1-5). ...

Toll ticket colors

Toll tickets obtained by motorists traveling on the Mass Pike are color-coded based on the interchange where the motorist entered the Pike. In addition to the black stripe on the back which is read by a magnetic reader, this color coding allows rapid identification by the toll collector, expediting the process of toll collection.

Exit 1 is Orange. Exits 2-8, 11 and 12 are Gray. Exit 9 is Purple. Exit 10 is Light Blue. Exit 10A is Dark Blue/Purple. Exit 11A is Brown. Exit 13 is Yellow. Exit 14 is Green. Exit 15 is Pink.

Service areas

There are 11 service areas (plazas) on the Massachusetts Turnpike, named for the towns in which they are located. They are:

A weigh station is located on the eastbound side of the turnpike in Charlton between exits 9 and 10. Lee is a town in Berkshire County, Massachusetts, United States. ... Blandford is a town located in Hampden County, Massachusetts. ... Settled: 1751 â€“ Incorporated: 1775 Zip Code(s): 01056 â€“ Area Code(s): 413 Official website: http://www. ... Charlton is a town located in Worcester County, Massachusetts. ... Nathan Fisher House, Westborough Westborough is a town located in Worcester County, Massachusetts. ... Settled: 1650 â€“ Incorporated: 1700 Zip Code(s): 01701, 01702, 01703, 01704, 01705 â€“ Area Code(s): 508 / 774 Official website: http://www. ... Natick Common, Halloween 2004 Natick is a town located in Middlesex County, Massachusetts. ... United States A weigh station is a check point located near the borders of most states (and some within states near highway interchanges) in the United States to check freight carrier compliance with fuel tax laws and weight restrictions. ...

The Mass Pike in song and popular culture

This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... See also: 1968 in music, other events of 1969, 1970 in music, 1960s in music and the list of years in music // Events Perhaps the most famous musical events of 1969 are two legendary concerts. ... The Get Up Kids were a Kansas City-based American emo indie rock band. ... See also: 1998 in music, 1999 in British music, other events of 1999, 2000 in music, 1990s in music and the list of years in music // Events January 7 After eight years of marriage, Rod Stewart and supermodel wife Rachel Hunter announce their separation. ...

References

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External links

Categories: Articles lacking sources | Transportation in Boston | Toll roads in Massachusetts | Tolled sections of Interstate Highways | Interstate 90 | U.S. Route 20 The Boston Globe is the most widely circulated daily newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts and in the greater New England region. ... The Boston Globe is the most widely circulated daily newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts and in the greater New England region. ... The Boston Globe is the most widely circulated daily newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts and in the greater New England region. ... The Boston Globe is the most widely circulated daily newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts and in the greater New England region. ... The Boston Globe is the most widely circulated daily newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts and in the greater New England region. ... The Boston Globe is the most widely circulated daily newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts and in the greater New England region. ... The Boston Globe is the most widely circulated daily newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts and in the greater New England region. ... The Boston Globe is the most widely circulated daily newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts and in the greater New England region. ... The Boston Globe is the most widely circulated daily newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts and in the greater New England region. ... The Boston Globe is the most widely circulated daily newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts and in the greater New England region. ... The Boston Globe is the most widely circulated daily newspaper in Boston, Massachusetts and in the greater New England region. ...

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