Sandwich Road is a two-lane

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in Bourne, Massachusetts,

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, traveling from Bourne center east to

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. It begins at a four-way

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with Shore Road, County Road, and Trowbridge Road in Bourne center; Waterhouse Road and Perry Avenue (the latter the former approach to the old

Bourne Bridge The Bourne Bridge in Bourne, Massachusetts carries Route 28 across the Cape Cod Canal, connecting Cape Cod with the rest of Massachusetts. It won the American Institute of Steel Construction's Class "A" Award of Merit as the "Most Beautiful St ...

) also once ended there. It heads east along the south side of the

Cape Cod Canal The Cape Cod Canal is an artificial waterway in the U.S. state of Massachusetts connecting Cape Cod Bay in the north to Buzzards Bay in the south, and is part of the Atlantic Intracoastal Waterway. The approximately canal traverses the neck o ...

, traveling under both the Bourne Bridge and the

Sagamore Bridge The Sagamore Bridge in Sagamore, Massachusetts carries Route 6 and the Claire Saltonstall Bikeway across the Cape Cod Canal, connecting Cape Cod with the mainland of Massachusetts. It is the more northeastern of two automobile canal crossings, ...

. A short connection, also called Sandwich Road, connects the Bourne Rotary – the south end of the Bourne Bridge – with the main road. From the area of the Sagamore Bridge, at Sagamore, east to the Sandwich town line, Sandwich Road carries Route 6A. Sandwich Road once carried both directions of Route 3, which ended at the Bourne Rotary. Later, Route 3 was truncated to the Sagamore Rotary, and US 6 became a

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at the canal – eastbound on the north side and westbound on the south side (Sandwich Road).1979 USGS quadrangles
/ref> The opposite directions were signed as US 6 Byp. Eventually both directions of US 6 were moved to the north side of the canal, and Sandwich Road became an unnumbered

. Despite this, a small number of US 6 shields still remain on Sandwich Road, several signs in the area still identify the road as US 6, and many residents of the area still refer to it as "Route 6."

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Streets in Massachusetts Transportation in Barnstable County, Massachusetts U.S. Route 6 Bourne, Massachusetts {{Massachusetts-road-stub