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Sunday, June 10, 2007

North Central Freeway: Most Needed; Most Botched


DeLeuw, Cather Associates and Harry Wesse & Associates, LTD, 1971.

1964 North Central Freeway Routing Mystery

1966 North Central Freeway Routing Mystery

1971 North Central Freeway Routing Mystery

Why might that be?
Posted by Douglas Andrew Willinger at 4:30 PM
Labels: highway routing mysteries, North Central Freeway, Northeast Freeway, tunnelize the DC Metropolitan Branch RR corridor, Washington D.C. Freeways

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DC Center Leg Capacity Giveaway

DC Center Leg Capacity Giveaway
of capacity costier to replace than the added developer profits

Developer Threats To Our Public Right of Ways

  • Best Vista Along Grand Arc/I-95 Corridor Threatened By Misplaced MRP Realty Proposal
  • Capitol Crossing I-395 Air Rights Project BOGUS FHWA Statement
  • Choking The B&O Grand Arc/I-70S Corridor
  • Choking The B&O/Grand Arc I-95 Corridor
  • Choking The Center Leg
  • Choking The Center Leg- 'Golden Rule' apartments block northbound on-ramp
  • Choking The SW-SE Freeway/Virginia Avenue Tunnel
  • Comstock 'The Hampshires' I-95 Blockage
  • Demolition Specials
  • Other Egregious Examples
  • Takoma Death Trap Development

Introduction

  • 1960s D.C. Freeway Planning Hegelian Dialectic
  • 1967 Duncan Wallace Letter to Spiro Agnew
  • 1970s 'Reasoning' Demap Freeways Because We Shall Run Out of Petro By the 1990s
  • 1970s 'Reasoning' Demap Inner Loop Freeway Because Virginia Won't Build Inner I-66: OOPS!
  • 95 Should Go Through Washington, D.C.
  • A Crafted Controversy- Scuttling JFK's B&O North Central Freeway
  • A Different Way- Alexandria Orb Interchange
  • A New D.C. I-95 Project
  • A New I-395 Gateway
  • A Sampling of Attitudes Towards D.C. I-95
  • A Superior Alternative I-395 Tunnel Extension
  • A Telling Deletion
  • A Telling Indifference
  • A TRIP WITHIN THE BELTWAY 101
  • A TRIP WITHIN THE BELTWAY 102
  • A Washington, D.C. Big Dig
  • About the Myth of No Room for D.C. Freeways
  • Answering A Critic
  • Bury The B&O Metropolitan Branch RR!
  • CENTER LOADER RAMPS
  • Covington & Burling Pays For AntiFreeway Riots in D.C. City Council?
  • D.C. Corridor Chock Epidemic
  • FEDS Stoked D.C. Freeway Controversy By Keeping EARLIER Plans On The Books To The Time Of The De-Mapings
  • Getting Over Upon Everyone Else
  • Grand Arc
  • Grand Arc Tiber Re-Surfacing
  • Homeland Security Goal Better Realized By Reviving Inside the Beltway I-270 Through NW- Mark Robinowitz
  • North Central Freeway 1964 Highway Routing Mystery
  • November 1, 1962
  • Obama and D.C. Transportation Security?
  • Peter S. Craig An Editorial Reply
  • Rebuttal to Overly Simplistic Historical Accounts
  • Ruth Abbott Widow of Sammie Abbott Dies
  • Takoma D.C. Deathtrap Real Estate Development
  • The Washington Post Continues Lying About D.C. Freeways
  • The Washington Post Lies About D.C. I-95
  • The Washington Post's Bob & Jane Levey Refuted
  • Up Front [& Hidden in Plain Sight]
  • Volvo's Subliminal Message For Takoma Park
  • Washington, D.C. Supreme Bridge [non] Builder
  • Washington, D.C. War on Drivers War on People
  • Washington, D.C.'s War on Freeways War on People
  • Who Really Stopped Washington, D.C.'s Freeways
  • Within The Beltway
  • WMATA Misrepresents D.C. Freeway

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