I-295
in MA Exit List
4 Miles, from RI Border to I-95
Exit Renumbering completed on Jan. 5, 2021. Sign
Replacement Contract given Notice to Proceed on April 13, 2023
Interchange
|
Milepost
|
New
Exit Number*
|
Old
Exit Number
|
 South
- Attleboro, Pawtucket, RI
|
1.9
|
2A
|
1A
|
North
- North Attleboro
|
1.9
|
2B
|
1B
|
South
- Providence, RI
|
4.1
|
4A
|
2A
|
North
- Boston
|
4.1
|
4B
|
2B
|
*Current
Federal MUTCD Standards support the continuation of exit numbers
across state lines for urban loop interstates. MassDOT did not
work with their counterparts in RI to continue the sequence for the
I-295 Beltway into MA. I sent a comment to MassDOT for an explanation,
(about both I-195, I-295 and I-395), this was their response:
"MassDOT has considered this option for these routes. Resetting
the exit numbers at the Massachusetts border, as occurs now, provides
travelers with an additional cue that they’ve crossed over into a
different state. It is our judgement [sic] that this will aid
driver navigation better than continuing the adjacent state’s exit
number sequences into Massachusetts will."
Travel
the Length of I-295 with these 2013 Videos (courtesy of Roadway Wiz):
I-395
in MA Exit List
12 Miles, from CT Border to I-90 Mass
Pike/I-290
Exits
Renumbered Between August 8 and 20, 2021
Interchange
|
Milepost
|
New
Exit Number
|
Old
Exit Number
|
 -
Webster, Thompson
CT
|
1.0
|
1
|
1
|
 -
Webster Ctr, Douglas
|
2.6
|
3
|
2
|
Cudworth
Rd - N. Webster, S. Oxford
|
4.0
|
4
|
3
|
Sutton
Ave - Sutton
|
6.6
|
7A
|
4A
|
Sutton
Ave - Oxford Ctr
|
6.6
|
7B
|
4B
|
Depot Rd
- N. Oxford
|
9.0
|
9
|
5
|
 East
To  -
Shrewsbury
|
11.5
|
11A
(12A)*
|
6A
|
West
- Sturbridge
|
11.5
|
11B (12B)*
|
6B
|
To
  - Boston,
Springfield /
 South
-Auburn (NB)
|
11.9
|
--
|
7
|
This
exit list contains both the new milepost based exit number and old
sequential exit number when MassDOT converted I-295 and I-395 to the
Geographic Reference or Milepost Exit Numbering system as of August
2021. MassDOT started converting exit numbers in October 2020 with the
routes in the southeastern part of the state. The exits on I-295 were
renumbered the night of January 4-5. The renumbering project was first
planned for 2016, but was eventually postponed.
*Numbers in ( )
are the proposed numbers from the 2016 postponed renumbering project.
I-395 Sign Plans
MassDOT waited to renumber I-290 and I-395 last due to the need to
complete an exit renumbering contract. MassDOT previously announced the
winning bid for a contract that will replaced signage along I-290
between I-90/Mass Pike and I-190 in Worcester on May 15, 2018. The
project will also replace signage at the north end of I-395. Here's the
plan heading north, notice the extra space on the exit tab for a future
2-digit plus suffix milepost based number (12C? though not included in
the proposed exit numbers for the 2016 exit renumbering):
The sign will also add a 'To' in front of the I-90/Mass Pike shields
because the ramp to access the Toll Road you have to travel south on
Route 12. They have also added a To to the southbound signs though, even
though that is reached by the exit ramp itself:
Route History, it could have been I-99
I-395 was
created in 1983 after Massachusetts and Connecticut got approval to
renumber the Route 52 freeway from I-95 to I-90 as an interstate. The
number, however, was not the original designation, it was originally
to be a continuation of I-290. However, as this letter from the
Commissioner of the Conn. Department of Transportation states,
Massachusetts did not want to use I-290 since it implied a loop, and
Connecticut refused Massachusetts' idea of designating it as I-99,
since they already had a Route 99 (so did Massachusetts, but they
didn't object):
(c) 2013-2021 Robert H. Malme
