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mds@access.digex.net (Michael D. Sullivan) writes:

{> 
{> You are recounting the arrested history of "Urban renewal", which many 
{> cities took to mean destroying the city in the name of modernization.
{> Actually, the "interstate" that was supposed to go up Rock Creek Park was
{> the "Inner Loop" (as opposed to the "Inner Loop" of the Beltway) -- I
{> don't think it was assigned an Interstate number -- and it was scheduled
{> to roughly follow Florida Avenue from P Street.  There was to be a K
{> Street Freeway, not an H street freeway (at least downtown), an E Street
{> Expressway that went more than its current five blocks -- all the way to
{> the end of the Inner Loop -- and the I-66 West Potomac Freeway (a 1/4 mi
{> stub of which now leads from I-66 past the JFK Center to nowhere) was
{> intended to follow the riverfront, more or less from Canal Road (at the
{> never-built Three Sisters Bridge from Virginia) along the route of the
{> Whitehurst Freeway past the JFKC to I-95 (now I-395) and thence to I-295,
{> paving over the Maine Avenue waterfront.  There would, of course, been an
{> exit near Georgetown University onto Whitehaven Parkway (now a park named,
{> oddly, Whitehaven Parkway) leading north to the Wisconsin and Van Ness
{> area.  For numerous reasons, many of which are very valid, these were
{> never built.  As a result, the Rock Creek Parkway/Whitehurst Freeway/K
{> Street/West Potomac Freeway/Virginia Avenue/E Street/Constitution Avenue
{> connections now defy description.  Seriously, don't even try to give
{> out-of-towners directions using these commuter routes.  "Bridges to
{> nowhere" only begins to describe the situation.  Of course, there is the
{> illogic that the West Potomac Freeway was intended to be I-66 Westbound,
{> heading Northwest from E Street towards Georgetown, while now it is, in
{> effect, a stub of I-66 *Eastbound*, given that I-66 was rerouted to the
{> Roosevelt Bridge and thence onto the stub (and never reaching Georgetown, 
{> except via the Whitehurst Freeway.. 
{> 
{> 
{> >Come to think of it, how many interstates go coast to coast?  I know
{> >I80 does (From Newark N.J. to San Francisco).  It's billed as "the Main Stre
{> >of the United States" in Indiana.  
{> 

huh ?

can you draw a diagram ?  ;

;)

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