{"id":8622,"date":"2020-12-03T00:03:21","date_gmt":"2020-12-03T05:03:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/?p=8622"},"modified":"2025-05-06T11:54:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-06T16:54:09","slug":"framingham-masspike-exit-111-and-exit-117","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/2020\/12\/03\/general-interest\/framingham-masspike-exit-111-and-exit-117\/","title":{"rendered":"Framingham MassPike Exit 111 and Exit 117"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"wp-block-image size-medium wp-image-8623\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"216\" src=\"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/masspike-stockbridge-boston-300x216.jpg\" alt=\"MassPike, Stockbridge to Boston\" class=\"wp-image-8623\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/masspike-stockbridge-boston-300x216.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/masspike-stockbridge-boston-1024x738.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/masspike-stockbridge-boston-768x553.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/masspike-stockbridge-boston.jpg 1099w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption>Listening to James Taylor's \"Sweet Baby James\" upon entry onto the Massachusetts Turnpike, (1994, Wasted Time R at English Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 3.0)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>FRAMINGHAM, MA<\/strong> - In the days before GPS, people asking for directions to Framingham from the east or west would be told to <em>\"take the Pike and get off at Exit 12 or Exit 13\"<\/em> depending where in Framingham they were going.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\"The Pike\" as locals call it, also known as the MassPike, (shortened from \"Massachusetts Turnpike\"), is the portion of U.S. Interstate Highway \"I-90\", a toll road that runs from the western border of Massachusetts in the town of West Stockbridge to Boston, MA the state capital.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Along with the rest of the MassPike,<em> (and many other highways)<\/em>, the exit numbers are being changed to a uniform numbering system based on mile markers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<!--more-->\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Exit 12<\/strong>&nbsp;with on\/off ramps to Rt. 9<em> (Worceter Rd.)<\/em> near the Framingham \/ Southborough town line will be renumbered to \"<strong>Exit 111<\/strong>\".<\/li><li><strong>Exit 13<\/strong> with on\/off ramps to Rt. 30<em> (Cochituate Rd.)<\/em> near the Framingham \/ Natick town line will be renumbered to \"<strong>Exit 117<\/strong>\".<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"256\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/massdot-new-exit-logan-256x300.jpg\" alt=\"new masspike exit numbers\" class=\"wp-image-8630\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/massdot-new-exit-logan-256x300.jpg 256w, https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/massdot-new-exit-logan-300x352.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/massdot-new-exit-logan.jpg 540w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>Small yellow rectangular signs noting \"Old Exit ##\" will be installed near the traditional large green exit signage which will bear the new exit number.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The new exit numbers represent the distance in miles on I-90 from the New York \/ Massachusetts border with the first exit, \"Exit 3\" at the beginning of the MassPike, three miles into West Stockbridge, MA.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>New signage work begins this month, (December 2020) and is expected to be completed statewide by the spring of 2021.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The Massachusetts Department of Transportation, (MassDOT), has put up a website with extensive information about how I-90 and other highways in Massachusetts are having their exits renumbered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the site, \"the new [mile marker based] system provides several advantages to the existing sequential numbering system\" including:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li>Driver friendly navigation<\/li><li>Allows drivers to quickly determine distances to destinations<\/li><li>Miles traveled can be calculated more easily<\/li><li>More accurate emergency response<\/li><li>Improves reporting of highway incidents, resulting in better navigation of emergency services<\/li><li>National uniformity - same exit numbering scheme as almost all other states<\/li><li>Easier to add future exits without renumbering entire corridor<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>For additional information, visit the MassDOT website: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.NewMassExits.com\/\">www.NewMassExits.com<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">###<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image wp-image-8628\"><figure class=\"alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"291\" src=\"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/sweet-baby-james-300x291.jpg\" alt=\"James Taylor - Sweet Baby James\" class=\"wp-image-8628\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/sweet-baby-james-300x291.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/sweet-baby-james.jpg 589w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption>James Taylor - Sweet Baby James, (1970)<\/figcaption><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><strong>Fun Footnote:<\/strong> This article may get those who know 1970's music and \"the Pike\" wracking their brains for what song it reminds them of -- it's probably singer\/songwriter James Taylor's title track of the album by the same name\"<a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/k2x0fPgAj_Y\">Sweet Baby James<\/a>\", whch contain the lyrics:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\"><em> \" ... Now the first of December was covered with snow. <\/em><em>So was the<strong> turnpike from Stockbridge to Boston<\/strong>...\"<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">Listen to it here on: <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/k2x0fPgAj_Y\">James Taylor's official Youtube Channel<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>FRAMINGHAM, MA &#8211; In the days before GPS, people asking for directions to Framingham from the east or west would be told to &#8220;take the Pike and get off at Exit 12 or Exit 13&#8221; depending where in Framingham they were going. &#8220;The Pike&#8221; as locals call it, also known as the MassPike, (shortened from &#8220;Massachusetts Turnpike&#8221;),&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/2020\/12\/03\/general-interest\/framingham-masspike-exit-111-and-exit-117\/\">[read more]<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63,"featured_media":8623,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[118],"tags":[4028,4021,1943,1570,4026,4027,4024,4025,4023,4030,4029,4022],"class_list":["post-8622","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-interest","tag-jame-taylor","tag-mass-pike","tag-massachusetts-turnpike","tag-masspike","tag-masspike-exit-111","tag-masspike-exit-117","tag-masspike-exit-12","tag-masspike-exit-13","tag-masspike-exits","tag-stockbridge-to-boston","tag-sweet-baby-james","tag-the-pike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8622","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/63"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8622"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8622\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9404,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8622\/revisions\/9404"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/8623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.framingham.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}