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- From: rlb@access.digex.com (Richard L. Butler)
- Subject: Re: From Balt/Wash Pkway to I-395 ????
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- Date: Sat, 21 Nov 1992 10:43:32 GMT
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- tratnana@lander.wbme.jhu.edu (Tilak Ratnanather) writes:
- >Twice I have driven down to Washington DC from Baltimore
- >on the Balt/Wash Parkway and attempted to get to I-395 to
- >get to National Airport and failed. It seems that there is
- >ONLY one exit to Pennsylvania Avenue and thats going EAST
- >not WEST; further down I have never been able to find the
-
- Take the Parkway to where you either head down NY Ave, or go left to the
- Anacostia Freeway (I think that's its real name); it's numbered 295.
- Follow that south until you reach the exits for the 11th St bridge.
-
- One exit takes you to a detour which leads (via a tortuous route which has
- you headed back the way you came for about 20 - 30 seconds) onto 395 S, and
- so to the 14th St. bridge to VA, and thus to Nat'l Airport (pay attention
- and merge right ASAP when you reach the bridge - the exit for the airport
- is the second one after the bridge ends).
-
- The next exit allows one to cloverleaf around (take 3 leaves, there is no
- fourth and it would put you back on 295 headed south, anyway) and end up
- headed up onto the South Capitol St. bridge. This is a more exciting trip,
- since there's this well-designed no-merge-lane zone at the top of a ramp
- directly into 50 mile-per-hour traffic. You still end up on 395 S, just
- a mile or so farther downstream than on the first route, and having risked
- your life.
-
- Good luck.
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