I-295
in MA Exit List
4 Miles, from RI Border to I-95
Exit Renumbering completed on Jan. 5, 2021
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
Interchange
|
Milepost
|
Current
Exit Number
|
Future
Exit Number
|
 -
Webster
|
1.0
|
1
|
1
|
 -
Webster, Douglas
|
2.6
|
2
|
3
|
Cudworth
Rd - N. Webster, S. Oxford
|
4.0
|
3
|
4
|
Sutton
Ave - Sutton
|
6.6
|
4A
|
7A
|
Sutton
Ave - Oxford
|
6.6
|
4B
|
7B
|
Depot Rd
- N. Oxford
|
9.0
|
5
|
9
|
 East
To  -
Shrewsbury
|
11.5
|
6A
|
11A
(12A)*
|
West
- Sturbridge
|
11.5
|
6B
|
11B (12B)*
|
To
 South  
(NB) -
Boston, Springfield
|
11.9
|
7
|
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|
This
exit list contains both the current exit number and proposed future
exit number when MassDOT converted I-295 and will convert I-395 to the
Geographic Reference or Milepost Exit Numbering system in 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 eventually postponed.
*Numbers in ( )
are the proposed numbers from the 2016 postponed renumbering project.
I-395 Sign Plans
MassDOT 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:
(c) 2013-2020 Robert H. Malme
