Boston Highway Travel Times Per Month For I-90

This page contains the summaries and graphs of the travel times for I-90, the Massachusetts Turnpike, between Logan Airport and Auburn. Remember that on the graph, white is eastbound and red is westbound. 9am is at 540 minutes and 5pm is at 1020 minutes.

July 2002

Summary:

Eastbound mean travel time: 54.3 min. (am) 54.1 min. (pm) 49.3 min. (other)

std deviation: 0.6, 0.5, 0.4

Westbound mean travel time: 47.6 min. (am) 56.4 min. (pm) 48.3 min. (other)

std deviation: 0.3, 0.9, 0.3

947 entries

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August 2002

Summary:

ROUTE 2: 90

Eastbound mean travel time: 60.3 min. (am) 57.5 min. (pm) 51.7 min. (other)

std deviation: 1.3, 0.6, 0.5

Westbound mean travel time: 54.2 min. (am) 58.4 min. (pm) 51.1 min. (other)

std deviation: 0.9, 1.0, 0.4

1132 entries

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September 2002

Summary:

ROUTE 2: 90

Eastbound mean travel time: 67.6 min. (am) 54.4 min. (pm) 48.7 min. (other)

std deviation: 2.0, 0.4, 0.2

Westbound mean travel time: 50.1 min. (am) 55.4 min. (pm) 48.6 min. (other)

std deviation: 0.6, 0.6, 0.2

1276 entries

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October 2002

Summary:

Eastbound mean travel time: 63.0 min. (am) 57.0 min. (pm) 50.4 min. (other)

std deviation: 0.9, 0.6, 0.3

Westbound mean travel time: 47.7 min. (am) 58.2 min. (pm) 48.1 min. (other)

std deviation: 0.3, 0.7, 0.2

1721 entries

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November 2002

Summary:

Eastbound mean travel time: 56.8 min. (am) 57.8 min. (pm) 49.2 min. (other)

std deviation: 0.8, 0.6, 0.4

Westbound mean travel time: 61.2 min. (am) 60.4 min. (pm) 49.6 min. (other)

std deviation: 1.2, 0.9, 0.5

840 entries

NOTE: The westbound morning time is biased due to few entries.

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December 2002

Summary:

Eastbound mean travel time: 66.4 min. (am) 53.7 min. (pm) 49.1 min. (other)

std deviation: 1.2, 0.4, 0.3

Westbound mean travel time: 47.8 min. (am) 58.9 min. (pm) 48.1 min. (other)

std deviation: 0.4, 0.7, 0.3

1344 entries

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January 2003

Summary:

Eastbound mean travel time: 61.1 min. (am) 51.1 min. (pm) 48.8 min. (other)

std deviation: 0.8, 0.3, 0.2

Westbound mean travel time: 49.5 min. (am) 54.5 min. (pm) 49.1 min. (other)

std deviation: 0.3, 0.5, 0.2

1478 entries

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February 2003

Summary:

Eastbound mean travel time: 65.1 min. (am) 57.8 min. (pm) 54.8 min. (other)

std deviation: 0.9, 0.7, 0.5

Westbound mean travel time: 53.1 min. (am) 63.4 min. (pm) 55.5 min. (other)

std deviation: 0.7, 1.0, 0.6

1398 entries

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March 2003

Summary:

Eastbound mean travel time: 56.1 min. (am) 54.0 min. (pm) 51.5 min. (other)

std deviation: 0.8, 0.4, 0.3

Westbound mean travel time: 51.4 min. (am) 60.6 min. (pm) 51.4 min. (other)

std deviation: 0.4, 0.7, 0.2

1236 entries

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April 2003

Summary:

Eastbound mean travel time: 60.9 min. (am) 53.9 min. (pm) 51.2 min. (other)

std deviation: 1.0, 0.5, 0.2

Westbound mean travel time: 51.7 min. (am) 60.8 min. (pm) 50.4 min. (other)

std deviation: 0.5, 0.8, 0.2

1023 entries

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May 2003

Summary (These times are affected by many faulty travel times reported by the website, especially during the morning):

Eastbound mean travel time: 68.1 min. (am) 54.2 min. (pm) 51.4 min. (other)

std deviation: 1.2, 0.4, 0.3

Westbound mean travel time: 116.2 min. (am) 61.4 min. (pm) 53.0 min. (other)

std deviation: 0.2, 0.6, 0.4

1166 entries

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June 2003

Summary:

Eastbound mean travel time: 55.4 min. (am) 54.8 min. (pm) 50.7 min. (other)

std deviation: 0.9, 0.3, 0.1

Westbound mean travel time: 49.5 min. (am) 60.9 min. (pm) 51.2 min. (other)

std deviation: 0.3, 0.6, 0.2

1052 entries

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July 2003

Summary (SmarTraveler did not report many morning travel times):

Eastbound mean travel time: nan min. (am) 52.6 min. (pm) 50.7 min. (other)

(nan, -1.5, +1.4 min from Jul 2002)

std deviation: nan, 0.3, 0.1

Westbound mean travel time: nan min. (am) 58.0 min. (pm) 50.6 min. (other)

(nan, +1.6, +1.7 min from Jul 2002)

std deviation: nan, 0.6, 0.2

1057 entries

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August 2003

Summary (SmarTraveler did not report many morning travel times):

Eastbound mean travel time: 51.2 min. (am) 52.4 min. (pm) 50.8 min. (other)

(-9.1, -5.1, -0.9 min from Aug 2002)

std deviation: 0.2, 0.3, 0.1

Westbound mean travel time: 49.2 min. (am) 60.4 min. (pm) 54.2 min. (other)

(-3.0, +2.0, +3.1 min from Aug 2002)

std deviation: 0.4, 0.6, 0.4

1064 entries

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September 2003

Summary:

Eastbound mean travel time: 62.0 min. (am) 53.7 min. (pm) 50.7 min. (other)

(-5.6, -0.7, +2.0 min from Sep 2002)

std deviation: 0.5, 0.4, 0.1

Westbound mean travel time: 49.7 min. (am) 61.3 min. (pm) 50.2 min. (other)

(-0.4, +5.9, +1.6 min from Sep 2002)

std deviation: 0.1, 0.6, 0.1

1840 entries

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October 2003

Summary:

Eastbound mean travel time: 61.8 min. (am) 57.2 min. (pm) 52.0 min. (other)

(-1.2, +0.2, +1.6 min from Oct 2002)

std deviation: 0.5, 0.8, 0.4

Westbound mean travel time: 50.7 min. (am) 66.8 min. (pm) 52.0 min. (other)

(+3.0, +8.4, +3.9 min from Oct 2002)

std deviation: 0.2, 1.0, 0.4

2015 entries

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November 2003

Summary:

Eastbound mean travel time: 60.6 min. (am) 55.4 min. (pm) 51.4 min. (other)

(+3.8, -2.4, -2.2 min from Nov 2002)

std deviation: 0.5, 0.8, 0.2

Westbound mean travel time: 49.4 min. (am) 64.7 min. (pm) 50.5 min. (other)

(-10.8, +4.3, +0.9 min from Nov 2002)

std deviation: 0.1, 1.3, 0.2

1167 entries

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December 2003

Summary:

Eastbound mean travel time: 60.4 min. (am) 54.2 min. (pm) 54.4 min. (other)

(-6.0, +0.5, +5.3 min from Dec 2002)

std deviation: 0.8, 0.2, 0.6

Westbound mean travel time: 50.8 min. (am) 64.0 min. (pm) 50.7 min. (other)

(+3.0, +5.1, +2.6 min from Dec 2002)

std deviation: 0.2, 0.7, 0.1

1948 entries

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January 2004

Summary:

Eastbound mean travel time: 60.2 min. (am) 53.8 min. (pm) 51.3 min. (other)

(-0.9, +2.7, +2.5 min from Jan 2003)

std deviation: 0.4, 0.4, 0.2

Westbound mean travel time: 50.4 min. (am) 58.8 min. (pm) 49.8 min. (other)

(+0.9, +4.3, +0.7 min from Jan 2003)

std deviation: 0.2, 0.6, 0.1

1866 entries

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February 2004

Summary:

Eastbound mean travel time: 60.1 min. (am) 51.7 min. (pm) 50.5 min. (other)

(-5.0, -7.1, -4.3 min from Feb 2003)

std deviation: 0.5, 0.3, 0.1

Westbound mean travel time: 49.6 min. (am) 56.7 min. (pm) 50.5 min. (other)

(-3.5, -6.7, -5.0 min from Feb 2003)

std deviation: 0.1, 0.5, 0.1

2043 entries

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March 2004

Summary:

Eastbound mean travel time: 61.1 min. (am) 52.1 min. (pm) 49.9 min. (other)

(+5.0, -1.9, -1.6 min from Mar 2003)

std deviation: 0.6, 0.2, 0.1

Westbound mean travel time: 49.9 min. (am) 61.0 min. (pm) 50.0 min. (other)

(-1.5, +0.4, -1.4 min from Mar 2003)

std deviation: 0.1, 0.6, 0.1

1693 entries

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April 2004

Summary:

Eastbound mean travel time: 67.1 min. (am) 54.9 min. (pm) 53.4 min. (other)

(+6.2, +1.0, +2.4 min from Apr 2003)

std deviation: 0.9, 0.4, 0.3

Westbound mean travel time: 51.3 min. (am) 66.1 min. (pm) 51.9 min. (other)

(-0.4, +5.3, +1.5 min from Apr 2003)

std deviation: 0.2, 1.0, 0.2

1447 entries

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May 2004

Summary:

Eastbound mean travel time: 66.0 min. (am) 55.8 min. (pm) 52.2 min. (other)

(-1.9, +1.6, +0.8 min from May 2003)

std deviation: 0.7, 0.4, 0.2

Westbound mean travel time: 50.3 min. (am) 62.8 min. (pm) 51.2 min. (other)

(-65.9, +1.4, -1.8 min from May 2003 - See note in May 2003)

std deviation: 0.1, 0.7, 0.2

1744 entries Graph:

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