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John R Cambron <fairland@mail.*chesapeake*.net> said something like:
: I think it was you that pointed out that there in no exit to west bound
: Pennsylvania Ave off south bound DC 295 / Anacostia Freeway.

I did, among other people. The issue seems pretty clear to everyone who
isn't simply trolling. :)

: Heres one for you, when DC Public Works rebuilt the bridge over the
: Benning RR yards on DC 295 / Anacostia Freeway in SE DC they put wide
: points on the bridge to connect ramps to the Barney Circle freeway.

I'd heard that before. And since the new bridge was to pretty much
parallel the railroad bridge, it makes sense that's where it would have
connected. Any further north and it starts interfering with the
residential areas on the eastern shore of the Anacostia, and any further
south and you start losing parkland.

: Who knows some day when all of Mayor for life Berry and his bunch die
: off, some one will biuld this connection, and bring the rest of the
: north end of DC 295 / Kenilworth Ave up to interstate spec.

Well, Barry was in favor of it for a while, but turned around when his
subjects started complaining. The really sad part is that $190M of the
$200M was federal; this bridge wouldn't have taken a single house, nor a
single business, included money to fix up the shoreline and the parks on
BOTH sides of the river, and would have been 95% financed by the feds, and
WAS still overwhelmingly rejected. So while you might have hope, I'm just
gonna call you an optimist and leave it at that :) 

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