The Washington Post gets it wrong again (in Raw Fisher)

The Whale Has No Famous Author

http://blog.washingtonpost.com/rawfisher/2006/12/the_whale_has_no_famous_author.html

Hunt dares to wonder how the city might have developed had the Three Sisters Bridge been built from Spout Run in Arlington into Georgetown over the objections of preservationists in the 1960s. The I-266 highway that was never built would have involved a tunnel beginning at the western end of K Street and continuing under the State Department, Federal Reserve, White House and much of downtown. While that project would obviously have obliterated some lovely bits of Washington, Hunt asks whether the stunted bits of highway that we're left with in various spots around the city have turned out to be more damaging than if the interstate system had been built as originally proposed.

"The I-266 highway that was never built would have involved a tunnel beginning at the western end of K Street and continuing under the State Department, Federal Reserve, White House and much of downtown. While that project would obviously have obliterated some lovely bits of Washington, Hunt asks whether the stunted bits of highway that we're left with in various spots around the city have turned out to be more damaging than if the interstate system had been built as originally proposed."

There was never a tunnel planned to go under the State Department or the White House, etc.

There was a tunnel to be under K Street to turn along New York Avenue; the K Street tunnel itself would have taken zero buildings.

The Washington Post needs to get a fact checker.

I-66 K Street Tunnel
http://wwwtripwithinthebeltway.blogspot.com/2007/03/i-66-north-leg-west-k-street-tunnel.html