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Re: Capital Beltway Semantics




resch@cpcug.org (Gregory Resch) wrote:
>
>In fact, those words were actually arrived at by Washington's
>long-suffering traffic reporters about ten years ago, after struggling 
for
>many more years with "clockwise," etc.  Then, some bureaucrat tried to 
get
>them (the words, not the reporters) legalized, and those unreadable
>"inner/outer loop" signs went up on all the Beltway approaches, so that
>I-95 could be officially "completed" from Springfield to College Park
>(hence, Maine to the Keys).  But "I-495"  was abolished in that same
>stretch!  ("Harummph.  Can't have two Interstate numbers on the same
>road.  The very idea....")  It was a miserable failure--lasted about six 

>months. 

I-95 is not continuous from Maine to the Keys.  There's a stretch between 
Philly and NYC where the two parts of I-95 don't meet.




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