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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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