![]() It was to supplement the "Relocated Route 128" (Yankee Division Highway), which was being built to serve towns and inner-ring suburbs roughly along a 15-mile radius of Boston, and the proposed (but never built) Inner Belt Expressway (I-695) in the urban core. Stretching from Salisbury to Foxborough, the "Relocated Route 110" was to be routed through a mix of industrialized and lightly populated areas roughly along a 30-mile radius of Boston. Thus, the loop, in addition to bypassing the heavily urbanized areas of the north, will provide a much-needed boost to the economic development of the cities and towns it serves by providing swift, easy access to all parts of the state and the nation. ![]() ![]() In its western sweep some 30 miles from Boston, it will pass close to Worcester, and swing south and east again to serve Milford and other manufacturing areas in the south-central area. This looping 87.3-mile-long expressway, in effect the third belt highway around metropolitan Boston, also serves as a vital connector to the great industrial cities of the Merrimack Valley-Haverhill, Lawrence and Lowell. The commonwealth stated the purpose of the outer bypass as follows: Georges.)ĪN OUTER LOOP FOR EASTERN MASSACHUSETTS: In the late 1940's, as plans were being developed for an expressway network to serve Boston and its inner-ring suburbs, the Massachusetts Department of Public Works (MassDPW) announced plans for an outer bypass of the Boston area. This 2002 photo shows the northbound Outer Circumferential Highway (I-495) at EXIT 34 (MA 110 / Chelmsford Street) in Chelmsford.
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