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- From: jim@visix.com (Jim Edwards-Hewitt)
- Subject: Re: What was the commotion on Kenilworth Friday?
- Message-ID: <1992Jul21.160744.3623@visix.com>
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- Organization: Visix Software Inc., Reston, VA
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- Date: Tue, 21 Jul 92 16:07:44 GMT
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- collins@aplcomm.JHUAPL.EDU (Skip Collins) writes:
- >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 DC 295 designation was added just a couple of years ago to try to
- clarify things. The Maryland route number may have been assigned for the
- same reason, but has been around much longer.
-
- >The road is very poorly designed. The planners seem to have wanted to
- >inhibit North-South travelers from going downtown.
-
- Or the other way around. When I used to commute from Arlington to
- Beltsville, it took me weeks before I found a way to get from 395 to 295
- north without making an illegal U-turn.
-
- -- Jim
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