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Alyssa Botelho's avatar

This is a FANTASTIC article. As a lover of our local history and an employee for the Town of Fairhaven for nearly 10 years, I think this is a valuable discussion for our community. If you’re interested, maybe an appearance on Fairhaven TV’s public access channel would get more residents thinking about this. Feel free to shoot me an email at abotelho@fairhaven-ma.gov if you’d like to talk more about it. - Alyssa Botelho, video producer

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Alex Pline's avatar

What's maddening about this is the history of why it became such a STROAD and that this history is the reason it should now NOT be a STROAD. 195 was completed in 1974 when I was 13 years old, so I remember the effect it had on US 6. We sailed in Marion every weekend since I was about 2 years old and before 195 went through, there was a LOT of traffic on 6 going to the cape so there was a lot of pressure to expand the road for throughput. Once 195 went through, basically any through traffic went there and offloaded most of the traffic (and killed a ton of local business too). Given this, it has always astounded me that Fairhaven, Mattapoisett, Marion and Wareham wouldn't revert it to a local design. Mattapoisett has gone to 3 lanes in one section and I understand Marion is considering a road diet. This should be de rigueur for the entire length of it. And you are right Dartmouth is a mess, I have had to ride my bike on it for stretches in the last few years and it sucks.

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