I-95 South: Maine, NH, Mass

[@KML0224]

Thank you for this very familiar video sir! I went from greater Hartford to southern Maine 17 times in 1996. As for 2009? Once. Strange, I know! I was relieved to see the Maine Turnpike widening get finished under budget and ahead of schedule. I always use to dread the northbound lane drop in York near the Ogunquit town line. Oh well...ON TO HARTFORD! :)

[@GerardPalmeri]

Cool video! An area of the country I know very, very well. I grew up in Haverhill, MA. Thanks for all the videos.

[@Freewayjim]

Thanks, That's a edge glow effect from a pack of software filters I'm using on a trial basis, you'll see more in the next video.

[@techedtchr]

This song would have been awesome for one of your night-time Overdrive videos. Love your videos...

[@Freewayjim]

@firenewt95: A left lane hog (or Bandit) is someone who drives in the far left lane of a freeway at or below the speed limit, and refuses to move over for faster traffic, even after lights are flashed and the horn is blown. In the US the left lane is for passing, not cruising.

[@sturmdegs]

As a Maine resident, a few extra notes for you... great job... as we say, we can't leave Maine without taking this route (hence the 8 lanes, it serves all of Maine, too.) The 8-lane bridges aren't for future expansion, it allows them to do bridge repair on the Maine Turnpike by putting 2 and 2 on the same bridge. This was done during "The Widening" that took it from 2 and 2 to 3 and 3.

[@AmethystWoman]

thanks, haven't driven that route in several years. from Saco ME to Dracut, Ma.

[@Freewayjim]

I've been a AAA member since 1980 :) Love those Triptiks.

[@sturmdegs]

As for Left Lane hogs in Maine, yes, too many Mainers don't realize the rightmost lane is a true lane, and not a breakdown lane. Since trucks tend to the center lane... the unwashed all end up in the left lane. It's very annoying. That's why the sudden 8 lanes are so refreshing after crossing the "Piss" Bridge. Yet another great job, FJ. What caused the washout effect around the 3:10 mark?

[@aipo86t]

I remember driving that same route one time. As we crossed in to Mass. All the cars around me just took off. I had not touched the cruse control, but all the cars around me just bumped up their speed 10+ MPH! I think I heard cars downshifting! Yee haa.

[@Freewayjim]

I took an excursion through eastern PA for Roadside America and Hershey, then stayed in Baltimore (Inner Harbor) that night. The next morning was 95 to 66 in DC to 81 to 77 to 85.

[@StukInBuf]

In Me-Mass.-NH... did they update the exit numbers to match the mileposts? I know Penn. did that a decade ago. NY still has a ways to go in order to do that.

[@bnywtrains9482]

4:33 I’ve got a VERY funny story about this store. I was probably about three years old and my mom forgot her wallet in a shopping cart. We were headed to NY to see family and picked up some wine or something like that. She literally reversed up the highway ramp to get back to the parking lot LOL. I still give her crap for it.

[@frank017022]

i freewayjim is frank the laval i find this vidéo very very top nice beacause i remember my last summer, in my vacation to old orchard beach and cape-cod, i pass to interstate 95 south when leaving old orchard beach to continue my vacation ro cape-cod, and i pass the maine turnpike is very cool whent to pass and drive on interstate 95 turnpike to drive on muggle big and redowns etc........to bridge piscaquatuna river...........to nh and mass .................

[@davidrivera9743]

Used to take the trip Lebanon, ME ( just off the two lane segment of the Spaulding which Sundays in the summer was bad until it widened just before 125) to Boston a lot in the early 2000s.

[@AnimatorDevronBliss]

Awesome! That is the same road I take on Thanksgiving. But to Haverhill Mass.

[@Freewayjim]

Yeah I know that song but I don't have it, not sure if I'd ever use it or not.

[@signalkid1]

dude I was on this same road the same day you uploaded the video!

[@Freewayjim]

Thanks, and I agree with you on the music.

[@Freewayjim]

Interesting, thanks for pointing that out, it's a good idea really.

[@Ja100453]

What a minit if you exit off to I-495 to I-84 are you which route are you going to DC then to Atlanta.

[@RicksTravelogue]

Good job as always. I knew this was what you would be doing based on the previous tease. It's a nice ride. I do find one thing funny: the toll for I-95 is $2, yet if you get off at the NH 101 exit, it's 75 cents. If you had time to kill, you could get off at Exit 2, pay the 75 cents, loop around and pay it again, paying $1.50 total. Then again, you'd burn the other 50 cents in gas trying to make the effort. The shortest drive on I-95 through a state is NH. It goes by fast, too.

[@RicksTravelogue]

And.. one minor comment about your description - I think you should note that it's Exit 7 in Maine that you started your trip on, not to get confused to the Exit 7 in Portsmouth, NH. :)

[@EuropeanRoads]

Nice, 8 lanes, I didn't expect that up there.

[@Freewayjim]

Yes I took I-66 West out of DC to I-81 south to I-77 south and there will be some videos coming from that part of the trip.

[@Michael1966W]

GREAT Videos keep the coming

[@mackdetroit4life]

They are talking about replacing the Piscataqua river bridge and possibly widening it. If they do, i hope they do something about the crosswinds and buffeting. It can get pretty scary up there!

[@Freewayjim]

I always thought I'd enjoy doing that.

[@plumerjr]

Traveled that stretch many times.

[@Freewayjim]

You are welcome, I hope you like the Hartford video coming up.

[@benlonghighway]

I don't think I-93 has an exception in New Hampshire. The part in Hooksett between I-293's northern end, and the Hooksett Toll Plaza does have four lanes northbound, but going southbound, there's actually THREE lanes there. So, it's technically a seven lane highway. Therefore, I-95 actually IS the one and only eight lane highway in the Granite State. Nice video, though!! And have you thought of filming the Spaulding Turnpike yet?

[@Freewayjim]

@ContinentalArmy1776 - Sometimes, mostly if they are blocking the left lane.

[@melinuxf00l]

1:05 It's not a genuine left lane hog if the guy is actually passing someone. He moved back over when he was done. We do have quite the abundance of middle lane hogs, however. Proper lane discipline seems to disappear altogether in this country whenever you have more than two freeway lanes. Most people are good about staying to the right except to pass when there's only two lanes, but add any more and people just dawdle along in whatever lane they feel like, open lane to the right or not.

[@Freewayjim]

Thanks, actually I was only gone for 6 days, that's it for the year, I really don't travel as much as you might think.

[@Freewayjim]

@benlonghighway Thanks, no, the Spaulding TPK is not high on my list for when I ever get back up that way.

[@Freewayjim]

Yes, from Old Town to Houlton (The northern terminus).

[@Freewayjim]

No, I did not film I-495, the light was bad and that road it not very interesting IMO.

[@TheLocalLt]

I believe when they named the other two NH turnpikes (Everett and Spaulding), they renamed I-95 to the Blue Star Turnpike

[@Freewayjim]

It was all I could do to talk my party in to 7 miles at that point, maybe someday I'll see the northern end of I-95, I've seen the southern end.

[@Freewayjim]

@Michael1966W Thank you!

[@DevonC90]

That was a quick run through NH! lol only 13 miles of coastline, shortest of all the states! -A New Hampshrite

[@Peng_Pong]

DevonC90 Vermont has no coastline.

[@nadine2k101]

I drive I-95 frequently, I can't drive 65 , and certainly not 55, amen Sammy Hagar. raise the speed limit Maine! I have to live there.

[@SpenserMadden]

ive been on 95 from highway one northbound in miami fl to kentley maine

[@rawmustard]

Looks like the New Hampshire Turnpike could use Open Road Tolling. Hopefully that's in the foreseeable future (plenty of space to convert that toll plaza).

[@MazdaStrider]

oh i see.. thanks, dude. looking forward to the Hartford one :)

[@redsoxguy617]

can u do a drive through portland?

[@MazdaStrider]

cool video, dude! are u going to film I-495? i guess not since ur next vid is gonna be in Hartford.

[@Freewayjim]

It's OK, I'm originally from NH so I feel your pain :)

[@Freewayjim]

I've only used it in one video before this? And you won't like what's coming next either

[@eric829]

@StukInBuf legit were the only part of the USA that still has not converted to the mile marker exits. i had heard somewhere within 5-10 years we will have to. makes lots of sesne in my eyes to have it by mile. guess some people will get overwhelmed when they see "exit 127" instead of "exit 17" off i-90 in massachusetts

[@superjta59]

I'd have to tell you something, I-95 now has open road tolling.

[@Freewayjim]

I have a GPS in my car and on my iPhone. I have every Rand McNally Atlas since 1956, no GPS is as good as having an actual map in your hands.

[@Fanik10]

Blue Star Turnpike. Perhaps you used New Hampshire Turnpike to make it easier on Freeway Jim Nation!

[@Freewayjim]

Dually noted

[@Ja100453]

I agree with Freewayjim about I-95 is the only 8 lane highway in NH, other NH freeways and most of VT have maximum of 2 lane each highways. Hmm even in the largest city of Manchester I-293 only has 2 lanes each, They should have put an HOV lane on I-293 from the turnpike split to the city. and a HOV lane on I-89 in Burlington

[@youarestanky]

I live on the road with that truckstop. Ocean Road

[@Freewayjim]

No, I only have parts of Maine in two videos.

[@Freewayjim]

@StukInBuf -Only in Maine. You know New England, slow to change old habits :)

[@jadentaylor8]

He used the same song in his Atlanta video in 2011

[@CrayolaBoi83]

Great videos but why do u have a map? Not to sound snotty but gps is sooooo much better and they're super cheap now.

[@Freewayjim]

It's nothing really, NH is my home state so spend the money in NH and not Mass, and NH tends to make in convenient with state run liquor stores on I-95 and on I-93, which I have never seen anywhere else in the country.

[@Freewayjim]

@MyMultimedia ???? Maybe he was speeding?

[@blaknoizee]

I see u added some flavor to this video with that "border enhancer" whatever the name may be. But geez, u have alot of time off to travel like u do. I wish I could. But nonetheless, u have fans

[@Freewayjim]

@MyMultimedia Sorrry, it didn't translate.

[@Freewayjim]

@redsoxguy617 If I ever get up there I'd film it.

[@spookyapp]

Good video, I'm getting tired of the glow effect though

[@PeterALoch]

Update Freewayjim..On 95 in NH it has e-z pass now where you can wizzzzzzzzzzzzz right thru

[@InkaBall]

I thought FWJ has Peach-pass, because he lives in GA

[@Freewayjim]

Hey, why not, no sales tax in NH :)

[@superjta59]

I have been to Maine, and Mainers basically copy whatever Massachusetts does when it comes to the road

[@CatholicTraditional]

Maine was originally part of MA until 1820.

[@coolgirlcaleb]

Yes we have lane hogs. Lots of them.

[@Freewayjim]

@Fanik8 -Hot as hell here today, wish I was in NH :)

[@millardthompson6844]

you are flying

[@Freewayjim]

The footage is sped up about 4 to 4.5x

[@marilynbautista9783]

Reylyn

[@chesterite74]

left lane hogs? its a crap shoot as to which lane will travel the fastest now. any one of them can be the speed lane

[@Lana2k6]

1:08 They're not called "Maine-iacs" for nothing. ;)

[@marilynbautista9783]

BoybandPH

[@MrTherockobama]

nastolgia

[@mikesgoodmann9349]

You could do without the fancy photo effects!

[@Freewayjim]

Some people like them.

[@Freewayjim]

I don't live in Mass, douchebag!