{"id":9926538,"date":"2023-12-23T15:26:31","date_gmt":"2023-12-23T15:26:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/?p=9926538"},"modified":"2024-01-22T01:32:23","modified_gmt":"2024-01-22T01:32:23","slug":"massachusetts-route-56-us-20-to-ma-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/?p=9926538","title":{"rendered":"Massachusetts Route 56, US-20 to MA 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/ma\/56\/20to9\/1.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>AMP: <\/strong>0<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: Leicester St and Southbridge Rd, Oxford<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Reassurance shield after the US 20 junction.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/ma\/56\/20to9\/2.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>AMP: <\/strong>1<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: Leicester St and Sterling Way, Oxford<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Reassurance shield a half mile later.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/ma\/56\/20to9\/3.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>AMP: <\/strong>1<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: Leicester St and Pleasant Ct, Oxford<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Route 56 passes under the Mass. Pike without interchange.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/ma\/56\/20to9\/4.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>AMP: <\/strong>2<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: Leicester St and Mill St, Leicester<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Soon thereafter, we&#8217;ll enter Leicester.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/ma\/56\/20to9\/5.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>AMP: <\/strong>3<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: Huntoon Memorial Hwy and Stafford St, Rochdale, Leicester<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Reassurance shield a half mile later.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/ma\/56\/20to9\/6.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>AMP: <\/strong>3<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: Huntoon Memorial Hwy and Clark St, Rochdale, Leicester<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Another reassurance shield a half mile later.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/ma\/56\/20to9\/7.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>AMP: <\/strong>4<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: Huntoon Memorial Hwy and King St, Leicester<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Reassurance shield as Route 56 prepares to turn right.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/ma\/56\/20to9\/8.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>AMP: <\/strong>4<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: Huntoon Memorial Hwy and Pleasant St, Leicester<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Turn right onto Pleasant Street for Leicester center.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/ma\/56\/20to9\/9.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>AMP: <\/strong>4<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: Pleasant St and Huntoon Memorial Hwy, Leicester<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Reassurance shield after the turn which desperately needs some vegetation removal &#8211; fortunately I drove by in the fall.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/ma\/56\/20to9\/10.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>AMP: <\/strong>5<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: Pleasant St and Peter Salem Rd, Leicester<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Reassurance shield a half mile later.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/ma\/56\/20to9\/11.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>AMP: <\/strong>6<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: Pleasant St and Wesley Rd, Leicester<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">As we enter Leicester center we&#8217;ll approach Route 9.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/ma\/56\/20to9\/12.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>AMP: <\/strong>6<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: Pleasant St and Franklin St, Leicester<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">In case you missed the last sign.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/ma\/56\/20to9\/13.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>AMP: <\/strong>6<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: Pleasant St and Barrett Dr, Leicester<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Turn left at the light for 9 west and right for 9 east.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/ma\/56\/20to9\/14.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>AMP: <\/strong>6<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Location<\/strong>: Pleasant St and Main St, Leicester<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Turn left for 9 west to Amherst and right for 9 east to Worcester. Stay straight to stay on 56 north.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/generic\/massachusetts56.png\" width=\"70\" height=\"70\" \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/?p=9926539\">N to MA 122<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/?p=9926537\">S to MA 12<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/generic\/massachusetts9.png\" width=\"70\" height=\"70\" \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/?p=9926982\">W to MA 31<\/a>,<a href=\"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/?p=9926981\"> E to MA 12<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.corcohighways.org\/highways\/generic\/70px-US_20.svg.png\" alt=\"\" \/> <a href=\"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/?p=9926836\">E to MA 12<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/?p=9926835\">W to MA 31<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AMP: 0 Location: Leicester St and Southbridge Rd, Oxford Reassurance shield after the US 20 junction. AMP: 1 Location: Leicester St and Sterling Way, Oxford Reassurance shield a half mile later. AMP: 1 Location: Leicester St and Pleasant Ct, Oxford Route 56 passes under the Mass. Pike without interchange. AMP: 2 Location: Leicester St and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9926538","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9926538","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9926538"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9926538\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9926538"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9926538"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/corcohighways.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9926538"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}