AAA was correct about I-195 in DC

[NE2]

Well, sort of. (If you haven't seen it, AAA maps in the 1990s showed I-395 under Capitol Hill as I-195.)

I had never read the 295-695 change in detail until now, and found this bit:

In 1984, the District received approval from AASHTO to redesignate I-695 to I-395, and to redesignate the portion of I-395 through the 3rd Street tunnel as I-195. However, this approval was contingent on extending I-695 across the Anacostia River and connecting to DC 295 north of Pennsylvania Avenue. Since this connection was never completed, I-695 was never redesignated.

I'm also wondering about a bit on http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/highwayhistory/data/page05.cfm

On April 30, 1980, Mayor Marion S. Barry requested the withdrawal of a 1.7-mile segment of the South Leg Freeway portion of I-695 between I-66 and I-395.

On August 27, 1980, Federal Highway Administrator John S. Hassell and Urban Mass Transportation Deputy Administrator Lillian C. Liburdi approved the withdrawal under the provisions of 23 U.S.C. 103(e)(4). In addition a 0.12 mile segment of I-695 was deleted from the Interstate System under Section 103(f).

Anyone know where that 0.12 mile segment was? The Potomac Freeway stub at I-66, or the I-395 Maine Avenue ramps?

[Alex]

80's Rand McNally atlases also showed the Center Leg Freeway as I-195.

[Henry]

I thought the Barney Circle Freeway was proposed later than that (around 1994 or so)! It probably would've made more sense to extend I-395 eastward rather than I-695, as the proposed route would've ended at the substandard DC 295.

[cpzilliacus]

I thought the Barney Circle Freeway was proposed later than that (around 1994 or so)! It probably would've made more sense to extend I-395 eastward rather than I-695, as the proposed route would've ended at the substandard DC 295.

It was proposed decades before that.  The D.C. Department of Public Works (predecessor to DDOT) had a completed Final Environmental Impact Statement complete in  1996 or 1997, and they  were ready to seek bids to build it when Mayor-for-Life Marion Shepilov Barry (in his 4th and final term) was ordered by  the Sierra Club to cancel the project, and he complied.

[froggie]

I dunno about "decades".  It would have been no earlier than 1978...that being when the I-295 East Leg was withdrawn north of East Capitol St.

[NE2]

http://wwwtripwithinthebeltway.blogspot.com/2007/03/barney-circle-freeway-bridge-project.html says 1983. Could have been useful, but the 11th Street Bridge project accomplishes the same thing.