Talk:New England road marking system

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Auto trails in southern New England[edit]

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

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)[reply]

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

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)[reply]

signed or planned routes[edit]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

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)[reply]

Colored trails[edit]

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)[reply]

Adding a graphic?[edit]

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)[reply]