Mass Cruisers March 2025 Newsletter

Copied from an email sent to me from John Buchanan of the Mass Cruisers

I included a link to your 2015 article, On the Road: Finally, respect for Route 6, that was published in the automotive section of the Providence Journal in my editorial musing for the March 2025 Mass Cruisers monthly newsletter. I drove the length of Route 6 eastward in September of 2013, the return leg of my own Jack Kerouac “On the Road” adventure that began in Boston westward on U.S. Route 20. I had not read your article before and was very impressed with the way you had tied the almost 100-year history of U.S. Route 6 in a Reader’s Digest version that everyone who has and still enjoys the adventures that the Grand Army of the Republic highway still provides today will be able to enjoy reading. I’m hopeful that others who happen across our monthly newsletter will click on the hyperlink and take time to read it too.

On a more opportunistic note, regarding my own admitted giving up filing legislation in time that would designate Route 6, along with Rtes. 1 & 20 in Massachusetts, as historic routes, I was notified by State Representative Stephen Howitt’s office: “I am pleased to share that our office has refiled this bill for the new session as an on-time file. The docket number is HD. 1092 An Act designating historic routes.

Additionally, State Senator Paul Feeley, who filed the same bill for me on the Senate side for the previous General Court was recently named Assistant Chair to both the Senate and Joint Committees on Ways and Means. The Senate Ways and Means Committee was where my one successful attempt at getting the historic routes bill passed in the Legislature had died.

So, again there is hope that our Massachusetts legislators will be able to get the job done in time to celebrate the 100th Anniversary of the 1926 Interstate Highway System.

Still CRUIZN the U.S. in my ’61 & ’91,