720 CMR 9.08 - Limited Access and Express State Highways

(1) Effect of 720 CMR 9.00 . 720 CMR 9.08(2) shall be effective on all limited access State Highways and express state highways where official signs have been posted prohibiting bicycles, pedestrians and/or horse drawn vehicles.

(2) Limited Access and Express State Highway Regulations.

(a) Horsedrawn Vehicles. No person shall ride or drive a horse or a horsedrawn vehicle within the limits of or on any portion of any highway where official signs have been erected at the approaches of said highway prohibiting such traffic.

(b) Bicycles. No person shall operate or ride a bicycle within the limits of or on any portion of any highway where official signs have been erected at the approaches of said highway prohibiting such traffic.

(c) Pedestrians. No person shall use any highway for pedestrian or foot traffic purposes except in emergency, where official signs have been erected at the approaches of said highway prohibiting such traffic.

(3) Backing Prohibitions. No person shall back a vehicle for the purpose of gaining entrance to any express state highway off ramp. Exit from the highway shall be made only at succeeding exits. No person shall back a vehicle from any ramp which provides entrance or exit for an express state highway.

(4) Tunnel Restrictions.

(a) No person shall operate a vehicle, and no person shall allow, permit or suffer a vehicle leased by him or registered in his name to be operated, transporting any dangerous article in any quantity in the vehicular tunnel of the John F. Fitzgerald Expressway located beneath Dewey Square in the City of Boston.

(b) Northbound Vehicles. Northbound vehicles transporting any dangerous articles shall leave the John F. Fitzgerald Expressway via the Kneeland Street exit and may enter or re-enter the Expressway at the Northern Avenue entrance ramp.

(c) Southbound Vehicles. Southbound vehicles transporting any dangerous article shall leave the JohnF. Fitzgerald Expressway via the High Street exit and may enter or re-enter the Expressway at the Kneeland Street entrance ramp.

(d) Empty Tank Vehicles, Empty Containers. No person shall operate or allow, permit or suffer to be operated, an empty tank vehicle or a vehicle transporting empty containers which were last used for the transportation of a flammable compressed gas, flammable liquid, a poisonous substance, or an explosive in the vehicular tunnel of the John F. Fitzgerald Expressway.

(e) Truck Cranes. No person shall operate a truck crane or any vehicle having a rear projecting crane or boom in the vehicular tunnel of the John F. Fitzgerald Expressway unless such crane or boom has been depressed sufficiently to prevent it from coming in contact with any part of the tunnel or tunnel devices, and only while vehicles approaching from the rear are protected from the rear projecting crane or boom by another vehicle following immediately behind the projecting extremities of the truck crane.

(6) Haul Road Restrictions.

(a) For purposes of public safety and convenience, no person shall operate any vehicle, except a commercial or emergency vehicle, on the Haul Road running between Dorchester Avenue and Congress Street in South Boston.

(b) The provisions of 720 CMR 9.08(6)(a) shall be effective only during the period that Official Traffic Signs are in place to notify vehicle operators of those provisions.

(c) Violations of the provisions of 720 CMR 9.08(6)(a) shall be punishable by a fine of not more than $50.00 as provided in M.G.L. c. 85, § 2E.

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