Massachusetts Turnpike

Massachusetts Turnpike is the eastern part of Interstate 90. It is an access-controlled toll road in Massachusetts. It is 138 miles (222 km) long, and runs in an east-west direction. The turnpike opened in 1957.

Massachusetts Turnpike Media

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  Approaching the former West Stockbridge toll plaza traveling eastbound, January 2008

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  The "Weston tolls" that separated the Western Turnpike from the Boston Extension, October 2006

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  The eastern terminus of the turnpike in the state, and I-90 nationally, at Route 1A in Boston

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  Now-demolished toll plaza on an exit ramp, January 2016

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  Toll ticket used prior to conversion to open road tolling

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  Fare collection gantry in Newton

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  A map of the proposed highway put forth in the 1948 Massachusetts Highway Master Plan. These proposed roadways would become some of the state's most important transportation routes in the eastern portion of the state.

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  Billboard advertising the construction of the turnpike, c. 1957, as seen in the documentary Building the Massachusetts Turnpike

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  New York Central Railroad (Boston and Albany parent company) employee magazine Headlights from February 1965 showing an aerial photograph of the completed Boston Extension of the Massachusetts Turnpike

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  Diagram of the highway system in Downtown Boston before and after completion of the Big Dig