Did they shorten US-6?

[Jimmy]

Massachusetts law allows routes to be numbered though they are not owned
by the state.  I assumed the highway became a town road still designated
"US 6".

Who maintains the route number signs on such roads?

Jimmy

[Garrett Wollman]

Post by Jimmy

Massachusetts law allows routes to be numbered though they are not owned
by the state.  I assumed the highway became a town road still designated
"US 6".

Who maintains the route number signs on such roads?

As of about fifteen years ago, the state maintains the route signs on
all state routes, whether or not any particular stretch is a state
highway. (There are also state highways that are not state routes.
Compare New York reference and touring routes.)

-GAWollman

[Paul D. DeRocco]

Post by Garrett Wollman
As of about fifteen years ago, the state maintains the route signs on
all state routes, whether or not any particular stretch is a state
highway. (There are also state highways that are not state routes.
Compare New York reference and touring routes.)

I searched the AASHTO site, and like all bureaucratic sites it's awfully
easy to find anything you don't want. So I was unable to find their rules
for U.S. Highways. I did, however, find a 1970 AASHTO document elsewhere
that, if still in effect, implies that AASHTO must have okayed the
withdrawal of the numbering. The fact that the guide signs were not merely
taken down, but replaced with Historic signs, suggests that some agency or
group wanted US-6 abolished in P'town, and another didn't.

http://www.trafficsign.us/uspolicy.html

[John F. Carr]

Post by Garrett Wollman

Post by Jimmy
Who maintains the route number signs on such roads?

As of about fifteen years ago, the state maintains the route signs on
all state routes, whether or not any particular stretch is a state
highway. (There are also state highways that are not state routes.
Compare New York reference and touring routes.)

Authority for posting numbered routes in Massachusetts is found in
MGL 85-2, which directs the highway department to post direction and
other signs "on all main highways between cities and towns" in
addition to state highways.