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The mid-1950s saw an extension of this bypass route south to the Sagamore Bridge and north to Kingston.
The northern section of the highway was built next with a connection from Derby Street in Hingham to the Southeast Expressway opening in 1959.
( Portions of this road run alongside the Old Colony Railroad's mainline, now used by the MBTA Old Colony Lines Commuter Rail, and the MBTA Red Line rapid transit.
) Finally the last sections between Hingham and Duxbury were completed by 1963 when the Route 3 designation was moved onto the completed freeway.
The former Route 3 highways became Route 3A in Quincy and from Kingston south, the remainder became Route 53.
Route 3 was connected to the Southeast Expressway in Milton by using Granite Avenue as a link from Gallivan Boulevard.
Until around 1965, the northern portion of the Pilgrims Highway, from current Exit 15 ( Derby Street ) in Hingham, was also signed as Route 128, which continued past the exit on surface streets to Hull.
However, by 1966 the 128 designation was removed past its intersection with Route 3 in Braintree ( and thus from the Pilgrims Highway entirely ) and the surface portion became Massachusetts Route 228.
Route 3 was then taken off its remaining pathway along surface streets in Boston and extended up the Southeast Expressway and Central Artery in 1971 to the Storrow Drive exit.
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