Talk:New England road marking system

Auto trails in southern New England

Much from Image:1922 New England road map 2.jpg

• Daniel Webster Highway
• Yellowstone Trail

Blue

• 10 Lynn-Salem Way Boston, MA? - Newburyport, MA?
• 21 Arlington-Lowell Arlington, MA? - Lowell, MA
• 23 Boston-Wareham Road Boston, MA - Wareham, MA
• 24 Weymouth-Bridgewater Weymouth, MA? - Bridgewater, MA
• 40 Boston-Haverhill Road Boston, MA - Haverhill, MA

Red

• 20 Haverhill-Newburyport Haverhill, MA - Newburyport, MA
• 50 Nutmeg Trail ? past Hartford - Providence, RI
• 62 Green Road Central Village, CT - Washington, RI

Yellow

• 3 New Haven-Derby Road New Haven, CT - Derby, CT?
• 14 Providence-Kingston Way Providence, RI - Kingston, MA
• 35 Boston-Sakonnet Point Road Boston, MA - Sakonnet Point, RI
• 39 Littleton-Salisbury Littleton, MA - Salisbury, MA
• 45 New London-Colchester Route New London, CT - Colchester, CT
• 51 Lawrence-Salem Way Lawrence, MA - Salem, MA
• 71 Anchor Way Pawtucket, RI? - Athol, MA?
• 88 Providence-Rice City Route Providence, RI - Rice City, RI

Other

• 25 Haverhill-Raymond Haverhill, MA - Raymond, NH

• Bedford-Danbury Route
• Boston Post Road
• Brewster-Danbury Route
• Danbury-Bridgeport Route
• Hartford-Springfield Way
• Hartford-Unionville Way
• Hubway
• Hudson-Berkshire Way
• Manchester-Somers Route
• Middletown-Durham Center
• Mohawk Trail
• Naugatuck-New Haven
• New Hampshire College Road?
• New Haven-Durham Center
• New Haven-Milldale
• New York and Berkshire Route?
• Newtown-Bridgeport Way
• Northampton-Pittsfield Way
• Post Road
• Poughkeepsie-Sharon Route?
• Rockville-Willington
• Thompsonville-Stafford Springs
• Torrington-Norwalk Route — Preceding unsigned comment added by SPUI (talk • contribs) 20:28, 31 March 2006 (UTC)

Not an official New England route designation but numbered by New York to be consistent with the system?

Where do these routes and their extents come from? Is there any evidence that the number for New York State Route 22 was chosen to fit the system? What about New York State Route 23, which continued west to Stamford? --NE2 20:42, 2 June 2007 (UTC)

signed or planned routes

Should the table termini use planned routes or signed routes? The original plan had termini located within both New York state and Quebec. Also, does continuity of numbering outside of New England proper mean the route continues? The old New York marking system and the New England marking system were practically identical after all. --Polaron | Talk 13:51, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

The New York Times article about New York's adoption of numbering in 1924 makes no reference to the New England routes; while they certainly did match some of the numbers (and didn't match others), they also matched several numbers with New Jersey (8 and 17). If you have a reference for the original 1922 plan, that should probably be included as a note (like 19 and 24 already are). --NE2 17:15, 3 June 2007 (UTC)

There is a route log in the 1925 ALA Green Book which shows the cities served by the routes. The driving directions in the book presumably are what was actually signed. Route 1 was probably the only true New England route in New York since the New York terminus matches the New England plan and also being an evolution of the Boston Post Road. --Polaron | Talk 00:01, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Colored trails

In Massachusetts, Connecticut, and Rhode Island (?), main roads were marked with colored bands:[1]

• blue, north-south
• red, east-west
• yellow, diagonal or secondary

Blue

• Route 1, RI to NH (via Route 1A)
• Route 2, New Haven to Bernardston
• Route 3, south of Danbury to Danbury, Newtown to Woodbury, Milldale to Farmington, Wareham to Orleans
• Route 4, NY to Lenox (maybe no markers from Salisbury to Great Barrington?), Williamstown to VT (or is this part red?)
• Route 6, Arlington to NH (via Route 6B)
• Route 8, Stratford to Winsted, planned from Winsted to West Becket, Pittsfield to North Adams
• Route 10, Saybrook to Hartford, Bernardston to NH
• Route 12, New London to Fitchburg
• Route 17, Canaan to Great Barrington
• Route 28, Wareham to Andover
• Route 32, Norwich to MA (no markers in MA)
• Route 109, Pittsfield to Coltsville
• Route 110, Hartford to MA (no markers in MA)
• Route 112, Durham to Middletown (or is this yellow?)
• Route 125, Andover to Haverhill??
• Route 126, Norwalk to south of Danbury
• Route 128, Danbury to Torrington

Red

• Route 1, NY to RI
• Route 3, Danbury to Newtown, Woodbury to Milldale, Farmington to North Windham, Fall River to Wareham, Orleans to Provincetown
• Route 5, NY to Boston
• Route 6, Orleans to Boston (via Route 6A)
• Route 7, Williamstown to Boston
• Route 101, North Windham to RI
• Route 103, Central Village to RI
• Route 109, Bolton Notch to Coventry
• Route 111, Milldale to Middletown
• Route 113, Thomaston to Hartford
• Route 119, NY to Danbury
• Route 125, Haverhill to Newburyport
• Route 315, Coventry to Willimantic

Yellow

• Route 12, Fitchburg to NH
• Route 17, Canaan to Hartford
• Route 32, Barre to Athol
• Route 101, RI to Plymouth
• Route 109, Coltsville to Northampton
• Route 110, Littleton to Salisbury Beach
• Route 114, New Haven to Durham
• Route 114, Salem to Lawrence
• Route 121, Salisbury to Canaan
• Route 122, RI to Barre — Preceding unsigned comment added by NE2 (talk • contribs) 23:45, 4 June 2007 (UTC)

Adding a graphic?

I might design and add an SVG graphic to this page to show a visual representation on all the highways. I don't have much experience doing this, but I will try to look into the design choices that wikipedia generally uses and work that into my graphic. Nicbudd (talk) 16:21, 26 February 2019 (UTC)