Massachusetts Route 228

Route 228
Map of Plymouth County in southeastern Massachusetts with Route 228 highlighted in red
Route information
Length:	9.4 mi (15.1 km)
Existed:	1967 – present
Major junctions
South end:	Route 3 in Rockland
North end:	George Washington Boulevard in Hull
Location
Counties:	Plymouth, Norfolk
Highway system
Massachusetts State Highway System Interstate US State ← Route 225 Route 240 →

Route 228 is a rather short (9.4 miles) south–north highway in southeastern Massachusetts.

Route 228 runs from Route 3 in Rockland, goes through Hingham, and ends at the intersection of George Washington Boulevard in Hull.

The exact streets Route 228 follows are: Hingham Street in Rockland; Pond Street in Norwell; Main Street, Short Street, Leavitt Street, East Street, and Hull Street in Hingham (also signed on Whiting Street and Derby Street, due to former strange concurrency with Route 53, see below); Nantasket Avenue in Hull. The center line of Hull Street from north of Glastonbury Abbey to the Hull town line is the town line between Hingham and Cohasset, which is not signed.

The route was designated in 1967, taking over the Hingham and Hull portions of the circumferential Route 128 when that route was truncated back to its intersection with Route 3 in Braintree. The Route 128 designation was established in the late 1920s. Due to complaints about the amount of traffic on Hingham's historic Main Street and other roads in town, the state first proposed building a bypass route starting in the 1930s, however there was never enough funding to start construction.