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Jonathan Gulliver

Gulliver’s Travels: Highway head wanted meaningful stress, and got it

His first management challenge: Produce department, Victory Supermarket. His latest: connecting I-95 and 495 to the Turnpike.

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Names to Numbers: U.S. highway shield came to Mass. 100 years ago

If you think the roads of Massachusetts are chaotic now, you should have seen them before they had numbers. That was the free-wheeling reality of road travel here and in most other states until well into the automobile age.