The Northeast Expressway (also I-95) to Peabody was largely eliminated.
This was the original alignment of Interstate 85 (I-85; Northeast Expressway) through northeast Atlanta.
US 1 replaced the cancelled I-95 on the Northeast Expressway, north of downtown Boston, in the 1970s.
The freeway would continue southeast and interchange with US 1, which was proposed to be routed on the Northeast Expressway.
The following roads are known as the Northeast Freeway or Northeast Expressway:
There weren't many cars on the Northeast Expressway at this time of night.
In Atlanta, I-85 turns into the teeming Northeast Expressway, and sprouts the perimeter highway I-285.
The 426 and 428 express buses pass through Chelsea on the Northeast Expressway.
Ultimately the Northeast Expressway was never built, due to lack of funds, and the subway extension remained a paper concept.
Between 1972 and 1974, plans were to extend I-95 along a northerly extension of the Northeast Expressway to Route 128 in northwestern Danvers.