{"id":9483,"date":"2017-12-21T10:00:12","date_gmt":"2017-12-21T16:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=9483"},"modified":"2017-12-17T13:16:20","modified_gmt":"2017-12-17T19:16:20","slug":"rhode-island-renumbers-i-295-exits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2017\/12\/rhode-island-renumbers-i-295-exits\/","title":{"rendered":"Rhode Island renumbers I-295 exits"},"content":{"rendered":"

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\nOctober 12, 2017:<\/strong> At the time, the exit on RI I-295 for US 6 was Exit 6; now it’s Exit 9. I was traveling south so I didn’t take many pictures on that interstate. This one has two state capitals on one BGS!<\/em><\/p>\n

Straight from the Rhode Island DOT<\/a>, and then discussed on AARoads,<\/a>\u00a0I-295 in that state just had its exit numbers reset to match mile markers instead of going sequentially.<\/p>\n

New England states and New York have clung stubbornly to the sequential numbering despite the obvious superiority of mile-marker-based exits. I had first-hand experience with this this fall when I was trying to calculate how far it was from one point to another on interstates and finding it took much more time.<\/p>\n

Maine converted in 2004<\/a> (PDF) when it flipped around I-95 and I-295 so the former stayed attached to the Maine Turnpike the whole way. That was long ago enough my GPS had it; these new changes will necessitate updates to all that software and any GPS that can’t update will be stuck with the old numbers.<\/p>\n

I-295 in Rhode Island is 23 miles long and spills a bit into Massachusetts. It would make sense for Massachusetts to renumber its short piece by picking up the mileage at the state line.<\/p>\n

Rhode Island will also renumber exits on I-95 and I-195, but the latter will be tricky. It has eight exits in three miles, so instead of 1-8 there will be lettered suffixes added.<\/p>\n

On October 12, 2017, I traveled the entire lengths of I-195, I-295, and US 6 in “Little Rhody” \u2014 a combined 54 miles. US 6 spends as much time in the Ocean State as it does in Iowa County. The scenery is a little different though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

October 12, 2017: At the time, the exit on RI I-295 for US 6 was Exit 6; now it’s Exit 9. I was traveling south so I didn’t take many pictures on that interstate. This one has two state capitals … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-highway-miscellaneous"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9485,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9483\/revisions\/9485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}