Originally Posted by friedman
2A only coincides with Mass Ave for a short distance in Lexington before it veers left and is named Marrett Road. At the other end, 2A stops in Arlington at the intersection with Route 3. 2A runs parallel with Mass Ave through Arlington and then crosses it in Lexington. Mass Ave also coincides with routes 4 and 225 for a while in Lexington.
Ah, got it! I looked at Yahoo!Map carefully and saw where exactly Rt 2A was. (My paper map doesn't show it all the way.) But why all on earth do all these numbers and names get mixed up like this? I remember a few years ago driving on Rt 9, which is also known as Boylston (well, the zillionth Boylston here), westward and trying to look for an exit to 128, but I couldn't find one. Later I learned that 128 was actually 95 around there!!! I saw the sign to 95 but nothing pointing to 128 so I kept going straight. Duh!
Now I've resigned to the narcotic-induced creativity of Mass traffic engineers and would feel lucky if there is a street name sign, of course unreadable, at all.