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I-395
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I-295
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(abbreviated '''I-695''') is the unsigned designation for the 1.39-mile (2.24 km) It runs from
Interstate 395 south of the
U.S. Capitol Building east past the north end of
Interstate 295 (at the
11th Street Bridges ) to
Pennsylvania Avenue at
Barney Circle , just northwest of the
John Philip Sousa Bridge . Stub ramps at Pennsylvania Avenue, once meant to continue the
Freeway (as part of I-295) to
Interstate 95 and
U.S. Route 50 northeast of
Union Station , with access to
D.C. Route 295 via the
Whitney Young Memorial Bridge (
East Capitol Street ), now provide access to
RFK Stadium .
The route is not marked, being instead signed for its destinations -
Interstate 395 ,
Interstate 295 and
Pennsylvania Avenue .
1955 plans (numbered in 1958) took
Interstate 95 through Washington on what is now
Interstate 395 , turning east at
U.S. Route 50 and leaving along the
Baltimore-Washington Parkway .
Interstate 295 was to run along its current route to south of the
11th Street Bridges , but then would have continued northeast along
D.C. Route 295 , ending at I-95 just outside the District. Interstate 695 was to run from I-295 over the 11th Street Bridges, turning west on what is now I-695 to end at I-95 (now I-395).
Soon (possibly by 1958, when numbers were assigned), I-95 between
Baltimore and Washington was shifted to its present alignment, splitting from the US 50 corridor northeast of
Union Station . I-295 was shifted to cross the 11th Street Bridges, and then turn east in the
Median of present I-695 (where the ramps to
RFK Stadium now lie), continuing north and northwest to end at I-95 and US 50 at their split. I-695 would be the short section of freeway between I-95 and I-295, and ramps on both sides of the
East Capitol Street Bridge would provide a freeway-to-freeway connection between I-695 and DC 295 (via I-295).
By 1971, an extension was added to the planned I-695. It would run
Concurrent with I-95 west to
Maine Avenue , where it would split (the existing
Interchange provides for freeway-to-freeway ramps) and run northwest along
Independence Avenue past the
Lincoln Memorial to end at
Interstate 66 at the east end of the
Theodore Roosevelt Bridge (that interchange also has the appropriate ramps).
The Southeast Freeway, including the part planned as I-295 to Pennsylvania Avenue, was built in the late 1960s. Plans for the remaining Interstates in Washington were cancelled in 1977, and at some later time I-295 was truncated to I-695, with the former I-295 stub to Pennsylvania Avenue renumbered as part of I-695.
A plan was made in the 1990s for the , which was to run from the east end of I-695 northeast and east across the
Anacostia River to
D.C. Route 295 . This would have filled a hole in Washington's freeway system, which currently has no connection between I-395 and DC 295. (This would have been provided by I-295 and the
Whitney Young Memorial Bridge .) After the Barney Circle Freeway plan was cancelled in 1996, a left-turn movement was added at the interchange between Pennsylvania Avenue and DC 295, allowing traffic coming from I-695 to cross the Anacostia on Pennsylvania Avenue and join DC 295 directly, albeit passing through two
Traffic Signal s. However, no ramp was provided from DC 295 south to Pennsylvania Avenue west, and so traffic from DC 295 to I-395 must cross the Anacostia on
South Capitol Street . There are plans
As Of 2006 to build two ramps at the I-295/DC 295 interchange to make these movements possible.
Shields are shown at intersections with other Interstates.
