Talk:New England road marking system

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[edit] Auto trails in southern New England

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

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Red
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Other
  • 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

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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)

[edit] 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
Yellow