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gottlieb@umbc4.umbc.edu (Robert Gottlieb) writes:

>In article <18JUL199221243472@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov> packer@amarna.gsfc.nasa.gov (Charles Packer) writes:
>>Was there anything in the news about the cause of a traffic jam
>>on southbound Kenilworth Avenue (a freeway in NE, connects I-295
>>to Balt.-Wash. Parkway)? 

>	Hmm, I'll assume you mean 395 to BW Parkway, considering 295
>	is the BW Parkway. :)  That's ok, I won't flame ya for it. :)
>	(I'm too nice sometimes.) :)

Well, not really.  The freeway, for lack of a better term, which roughly
bisects the beltway, has four different names. Running from north to south,
it is first the Baltimore Washington Parkway.  The parkway ends when the 
road splits between Kenilworth Avenue and New York Avenue.  Kenilworth
is, in effect, the freeway's continuation.  Kenilworth eventually becomes
the Anacostia Freeway somewhere around Pennsylvania Avenue or East Capitol
Street. Finally, at I395, the Anacostia Freeway becomes I295.  Interestingly,
if I am not mistaken, the number 295 is used to describe this road along
its entire route.  In MD the BW Parkway is MD 295.  Kenilworth and the
Anacostia Freeway are DC 295 and Interstate 295 is, well, I295.

The road is very poorly designed.  The planners seem to have wanted to
inhibit North-South travelers from going downtown.  

By the way, what has happened to Dr. Gridlock in the Post?  His column has
been missing for months now.  In place of his column each week, is a 
small notice saying "The Doctor is Away."  His is one of the most interesting
columns in the paper, especially for those of us who live and die by
the morning traffic reports.
-- 
Skip Collins