City of Boston Managed Streets

The Boston Archive

Dataset

City of Boston Managed Streets

<div style='text-align:Left;'><div><div><p><span>This layer represents all the public and many of the private roadways in Massachusetts, including designations for Interstate, U.S. and State routes. </span></p><p><span>Formerly known as the Massachusetts Highway Department (MHD) Roads, then the…

Dataset

Publisher: Boston Maps
Spatial coverage: Boston, Massachusetts
Fields: 73
Keywords: Interstate, MassDOT, expressway, highway, roads, static, streets, transportation
Publisher's page: https://data.boston.gov/dataset/city-of-boston-managed-streets

Artifacts

“Preserved” means the archive holds the bytes and their digest. “Referenced” means it holds the record of them and nothing more. The archive does not claim a holding it cannot prove.

Format	Preservation	Size	Digest	Source
ArcGIS GeoServices REST API	referenced	—	`—`	source
CSV	referenced	6536761	`d4f05d2b737ad1fd724fe62ff7a3f2c1c01f8e2dc8d18d53569f76c481d2c9f4`	source
GeoJSON	referenced	18229769	`d1a1619b85d1c12337c3573fce4e562d0e676ced95eb619fd04037b50b85b985`	source
HTML	referenced	—	`—`	source
HTML	referenced	—	`—`	source
KML	referenced	2882456	`a6071593a0d12803c9e2678d068842f9c7c0b37e342bbfd408bc62c2821cfe03`	source
SHP	referenced	—	`—`	source
ZIP	referenced	—	`—`	source

Column dictionary

The publisher's own dictionary, preserved verbatim. The archive does not reword a schema into its own vocabulary — how the publisher named a column is evidence about the publisher.

Column	Type	Description
`OID_`	text
`STREETNAME`	text
`CLASS`	text
`ADMIN_TYPE`	text
`RT_NUMBER`	text
`ALTRTNUM1`	text
`ALTRTNUM2`	text
`ALTRTNUM3`	text
`ALTRTNUM4`	text
`ALTRT1TYPE`	text
`RDTYPE`	text
`ROUTE_ID`	text
`ROUTE_SYST`	text
`ROUTE_NUMB`	text
`ROUTE_DIRE`	text
`RD_SEG_ID`	text
`STREET_NAM`	text
`FM_ST_NAME`	text
`TO_ST_NAME`	text
`FACILITY`	text
`F_CLASS`	text
`URBAN_AREA`	text
`URBAN_TYPE`	text
`F_F_CLASS`	text
`JURISDICTN`	text
`NHS`	text
`FD_AID_RTE`	text
`FD_AID_RD`	text
`CONTROL`	text
`NUM_LANES`	text
`OPP_LANES`	text
`SURFACE_TP`	text
`SURFACE_WD`	text
`SHLDR_RT_W`	text
`SHLDR_RT_T`	text
`SHLDR_LT_W`	text
`SHLDR_LT_T`	text
`SHLDR_UL_W`	text
`SHLDR_UL_T`	text
`MED_WIDTH`	text
`MED_TYPE`	text
`CURB`	text
`LT_SIDEWLK`	text
`RT_SIDEWLK`	text
`OPERATION`	text
`SPEED_LIM`	text
`OP_DIR_SL`	text
`TRUCK`	text
`T_EXC_TYPE`	text
`T_EXC_TIME`	text
`TRK_NETWRK`	text
`TRUCK_RTE`	text
`ROW_WIDTH`	text
`STRUCT_CND`	text
`TERRAIN`	text
`TOLL_ROAD`	text
`MHS`	text
`MGIS_TOWN`	text
`CITY`	text
`COUNTY`	text
`HWY_DIST`	text
`MPO`	text
`RPA`	text
`RTA`	text
`MILE_COUNT`	text
`AADT`	text
`AADT_YEAR`	text
`AADT_DERIV`	text
`LENGTH_MI`	text
`LENGTH_FT`	text
`SHAPE_Leng`	text
`Shape_Length`	text
`shape_wkt`	text

Identity

Identifier: urn:lemay:boston:dataset:city-of-boston-managed-streets
Canonical URL: https://boston.fyi/dataset/city-of-boston-managed-streets
As JSON: https://boston.fyi/dataset/city-of-boston-managed-streets.json
Version: 1 · last changed 2 September 2026

Provenance

Source: City of Boston Open Data Portal (Analyze Boston) — source of record
Licence: Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and Licence (PDDL) 1.0 (public_domain)
Retrieved: 2 September 2026
Source identifier: city-of-boston-managed-streets
Attribution: City of Boston
Rights as stated: Open Data Commons Public Domain Dedication and License (PDDL)

Transform ladder

#	Operation	Description	Tool
1	`fetch`	retrieved the dataset's metadata record from the CKAN package_show endpoint	`archive-ingest 0.1.0`
2	`normalize`	mapped the portal's catalogue fields onto the archive's Dataset record; the publisher's own wording and column dictionary are preserved verbatim	`archive-ingest 0.1.0`