Monday, December 20, 2010

Capping I-395 Center Leg To Reconfigure Ramps



Southbound I-395 ramp with unusual configuration preserving a continous curbside surface connection along 3rd Street NW and going underground before G Street, providing a more suitable environment better seperating local and express traffic

Project shall erect new buildings atop a cap atop the I-395 Center Leg Freeway southwards from Massachusetts Avenue NW, along with reconfiguring the freeway's access ramps.

This includes removing the southbound off-ramp (which is viewed as unneccessary since the freeway only starts just to the north at New York Avenue- owing to the wholesale freeway cancellations of the 1970s and early 1980s), replacing a Roman Catholic Church rectory, and again moving the Adas Israel Synagogue (now the Lillian and Albert Small Jewish Museum) moved to its present site about 1969 to accomdate WMATA subway related development.
Project shall reconnect G and F Streets across-atop the freeway, with G Street for pedestrians and bicylists, and F Street including vehicular traffic (with a full G Street connection impractical owing to the design of the northbound offramp).

1 comment:

Unknown said...

The city really needs to address it's lack of expressways which could ease the commute from the northern and southern parts of the city allowing folks t get from one part to the city without the burden of traffic lights. I still think that NY ave could be converted to a cross town expressway tunneling downtown to connect to K street and connecting to I-66 and the Whitehurst freeway.