MassDOT Holding Cape Meeting On Changes To Highway Exit Numbers

HYANNIS, MA — The Massachusetts Department of Transportation has scheduled a public meeting in Hyannis for Cape Cod residents to ask questions about the state's upcoming project to change highway exit numbers. The new numbers will be based on mileage, and are necessarry as part of a federal mandate. If Massachusetts did not make the change, the state would be at risk of losing federal funds.

The meeting was scheduled for 6:30 p.m. Feb. 25 at the Hyannis Transportation Center at 215 Iynnough Rd. To see how the sign changes will affect highway exits on Cape Cod, take a look at this interactive map, which includes the old exit name and the new one. The meeting will also be posted on the same site for anyone who can't make the meeting.

Sign changes are scheduled to begin in late summer 2020. The changes will come "route-by-route," MassDOT said. They will begin in Western Mass. and move east, and on individual routes will change east to west or north to south. Federal funds in this case will pay for 90 percent of the cost of changing sign numbers.

The old exit signs will remain up for two years after the replacement signs are installed, allowing for people to get used to the change.