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Anita Lauro <adl64@bigfoot.com> wrote in article
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> I hope someone out there can help me! :-)
> 
> I'm planning a charter bus trip next weekend, and our pickup point is
> going to be the commuter lot at the intersection of the Beltway (495)
> and 95N in MD. I've already confirmed that the entrance to the
> commuter lot is off of the exit ramp from 495 to 95N, coming from
> either direction.  The only thing I'm not sure of is how to get to the
> commuter lot if you are heading south on 95, towards the Beltway. If
> anyone is familiar with this lot, and can help me out, I'd greatly
> appreciate it!

That is an easy one!  When heading south on I-95 towards (north of) the
Capital Beltway in Maryland, you will approach a split: I-495/I-95 to the
left (Beltway south), and I-495 (Beltway north): note that the signs will
not mention the word "Beltway".  Take the righthand split (I-495, and NOT
the lefthand split to I-495/I-95.  Once past this split, you will see signs
for I-495 for the far right, with signs for carpool parking straight ahead
where the road only has 1 lane striped upon a pavement wide enouth for 4
lanes plus shoulders.  This is the southbound I-95 "stump" where this
highway was truncated as a result of the anti-highway protests of a quarter
century ago.  This pavement itself will narrow to one lane to cross a short
overpass; the parking lot you seek is to your left, within several hundred
feet inside the Capital Beltway upon a bit of the I-95 truncation pavement.

Douglas A. Willinger
Takoma Park Highway Design Studio   


> Thanks!
> Anita
>