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Massachusetts highway exit numbers to change in October to reflect mileage-based denominations to meet federal mandate – masslive.com

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Massachusetts highway exit numbers to change in October to reflect mileage-based denominations to meet federal mandate – masslive.com

Amid constant changes in 2020 not even highway exit numbers are safe.

Massachusetts will begin to transition to mileage-based exit numbers in October, according to WCVB.

The change was announced last year as the state will drop its current sequential numbering in order to comply with a 2009 federal mandate.

Massachusetts, New Hampshire and Delaware are the only states that have yet to implement the change, and are at risk of losing federal funding if they do not comply.

Loss of housing

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Destruction of housing due to highway construction is alarming due to the serious housing shortage in the U.S. In the 3 year period between 1967 and 1970 total displacements were as follows: 146,950 families or individuals, 16,679 businesses and non-profit organizations, and 4,890 farms. (Helen Leavitt, Superhighway-Superhoax)

It feels weird to be back on the bus. 🚌

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It feels weird to be back on the bus. 🚌😷

But it makes it so easy to get back and forth to work and everybody is wearing a mask. Parking downtown is such a bitch and there is so many stoplights. Plus it’s important to support public transportation. The mask though is hot to wear.

Airplanes and September 11th

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It annoys me that it’s hard to get anywhere in the wilderness – and be free of one industrial noise – be stuck listening to the noise of airplanes flying overhead. ✈While motor vehicles, generators and bicycles are prohibited in wilderness areas, no such prohibition exists for airplanes flying overhead.

One of things that most sticks out in my mind after September 11th was when they grounded the planes during that two day period after the tragedy.🔕 It made the sky quiet, it eliminated the jet trails that we’ve all just gotten to assume are normal. September 11, 2011 was a particularly clear day, and without airplanes going out, it made the sky even bluer and purer.

I don’t know if it’s practical to pass a law making wilderness areas no-fly zones.🛬 Certainly, that would get a lot of opposition from the airplane industry. Another option might be banning airplanes on holidays or Sundays, but that would also get the druthers of the traveling public who has places to go, relatives to visit, business to conduct. But it would be nice to give the air a break from the constant noise and pollution from air planes.