Everett Turnpike

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highway_name=Everett Turnpike
length_mi=39.9
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length_round=1
established=ca. 1955
direction_a=South
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ending_terminus=The Frederick E. Everett Turnpike, also called the Central New Hampshire Turnpike, is a toll road in New Hampshire, USA, running 44 miles from the Massachusetts border at Nashua north to Concord. The Everett Turnpike is named for Frederick E. Everett, the first Commissioner of the New Hampshire Department of Transportation. Portions of the road are shared with U.S. Highway 3, Interstate 93, and Interstate 293. In particular, the southern portion of the turnpike, in Nashua, is posted as U.S. Highway 3. North of Exit 7 in Nashua, the turnpike has no number, but parallels US-3, which is a toll-free local road variously known as Concord Street (within the city of Nashua) and the Daniel Webster Highway (within Merrimack and Bedford). In the Manchester area between N.H. Route 101 and Interstate 93, the turnpike is Interstate 293. North of Manchester, the turnpike is Interstate 93 to its terminus in Concord.

There are two mainline toll plazas on the turnpike, in Bedford and Hooksett. The Bedford mainline toll plaza replaced the Merrimack toll plaza (formerly located at what is now Exit 11) in the early 1990s. Ramp tolls also exist in Merrimack (at Exits 10, 11, and 12) and Hooksett (the on/off-ramps to I-93 Exit 11/N.H. Route 3-A). E-ZPass readers were installed in all toll locations in 2005. A "Welcome center" exists in Nashua (just off Exit 6), and major rest areas combined with state-run liquor stores straddle the highway in Hooksett just north of the mainline toll plaza.

The turnpike is part of the New Hampshire Turnpike System, and is operated by the New Hampshire Department of Transportation's Bureau of Turnpikes.

The proposed (but mostly unbuilt) Circumferential Highway around the east side of Nashua is defined as part of the Turnpike. [http://www.gencourt.state.nh.us/rsa/html/XX/237/237-mrg.htm New Hampshire Statutes Title XX Chapter 237] ] Henri A. Burque Highway, the surface road that U.S. Route 3 uses to get between exit 7 of the Turnpike and the Daniel Webster Highway in northern Nashua, is also part of it. [http://www.granit.sr.unh.edu/ GRANIT] GIS data - NH Public Roads]

Exit list

ee also

*New Hampshire Highway System

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