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bentley@access.digex.net.nyetspam wrote:

> Of course, the original I-295 was supposed to follow its current route
> north from the Beltway, cross the 11th street bridge, then follow the East
> leg under PA Ave (on the western shore of the Anacostia), follow what is
> now overflow parking south of RFK along the "Eastern Leg" until bending
> west again to hook up with "Interchange B," [rest snipped]

That was actually the LATER basic route for the East Leg, or eastern
loop of the inner loop system.

The original route for the eastern loop was to have instead to continue
north of the 11th Street Bridge, along 11th Street NE all the way to
Florida Avenue, cutting an entirely new swath through a good many
Capital Hill Victorian town houses.  Such a road appears on the 1955
DeLeuw Inner Loop proposal, and even in some earlier (1940s) proposals
for a new Mall along East Capital.  To the best of my knowledge, this
11th Street East Leg was dropped from consideration during the early
1960s.

Douglas A. Willinger
Takoma Park Highway Design Studio