Interstate 295 District of Columbia

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Photos showing older configurations for Interstate 295 at the Capital Beltway, the former stretch along the 11th Street Bridge, and replaced guide signs along the Anacostia Freeway (D.C. 295) freeway.

View of the Interstate 295 and Capital Beltway interchange reconstruction from the 1.7-mile connector between MD 210 and I-295 north. The original directional cloverleaf interchange was reconfigured to allow for a widened I-95/495 in association with the construction of two new spans for the Woodrow Wilson Bridge nearby. 09/25/04

New ramps were added to and from Interstate 295 to the National Harbor development south of the Capital Beltway in conjunction with the redesign. 09/25/04

Guide signs for Exit 1 along I-295 originally displayed Laboratory Road for the US Naval Research Lab. Only the sign at the Exit 1 ramp departure references the road now. 09/25/04

This Exit 1 overhead properly referenced the right-hand lane as exit only. Its replacement does not. 09/25/04

A former ground level sign for Exit 1 along I-295 north. 09/25/04

The United States Capitol Dome comes into view one mile south of Suitland Parkway. The one-mile sign for the east-west parkway was removed. 09/25/04

Guide signs for Exit 3B were replaced to reference the 2008-opened Nationals Park (home of the Washington Nationals baseball team). 09/25/04

Nationals Park was later added between South Capitol Street and Downtown for Exit 3B. 09/25/04

Exit 3B loops onto the west end of Suitland Parkway as it merges with South Capitol Street across the Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge. 09/25/04

Interstate 295 prepared to split with the Anacostia Freeway for the 11th Street Bridge and the Southeast Freeway, then unsigned Interstate 695. 09/25/04

The diagrammatic overheads for the Interstate 295 (11th Street Bridge) and District of Columbia 295 (Anacostia Freeway) featured trailblazers for I-395 and I-95 & U.S. 50 respectively. I-295 followed the 11th Street Bridge north to end at I-695 (Southeast Freeway) while District of Columbia 295 continues the Anacostia Freeway northeast toward the Baltimore-Washington Parkway at Tuxedo, Maryland. 09/25/04

Interstate 295 exited from the Anacostia Freeway via Exit 4 onto the 11th Street Bridge. The Anacostia Freeway continues northeast to I-95 north for Baltimore and U.S. 50 east for Annapolis. 09/25/04

Interstate 295 became an unsigned route along the 11th Street Bridge across the Anacostia River. The freeway defaulted onto the Southeast Freeway westbound for I-395 to Downtown Washington. The right-hand two lanes defaulted onto 12th Street SE north for M Street SE and the Washington Navy Yard. 09/25/04

Traffic to M Street and the Washington Navy Yard left Interstate 295 north at the north end of the 11th Street Bridge. A left-hand lane began for the Barney Circle Freeway ramps that served RFK Stadium via Pennsylvania Avenue. The RFK ramps were only open during stadium events such as D.C. United soccer games. M Street parallels the Southeast Freeway from Maine Avenue east to Water Street. 09/25/04

I-295 north prepared to merge with I-695 (Southeast Freeway) west over the intersection of M Street and 11th Street SE. The RFK Stadium ramps to the Southeast Freeway east were to have continued Interstate 695 east onto the Barney Circle Freeway. The Barney Circle Freeway was to follow the Anacostia River northward to a new river bridge near East Capitol Street to District of Columbia 295 (Kenilworth Avenue freeway). 09/25/04

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Photos by AARoads

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