Center Leg Constriction- Photos February 2017

The continuing desecration of the design capacity of the I-395 Center Leg Freeway in Washington, D.C.

photos by Douglas A. Willinger-  February 26, 2017

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http://wwwtripwithinthebeltway.blogspot.com/2015/01/choking-i-395-center-leg.html

http://wwwtripwithinthebeltway.blogspot.com/2014/12/fhwa-bogus-finding-of-no-significant.html

http://wwwtripwithinthebeltway.blogspot.com/search/label/I-395%20Air%20Rights%20Capitol%20Crossing%203rd%20Street%20Tunnel%20Project

Advice For the 45th U.S. President About Washington, D.C. Freeways

http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2017/01/20/full-text-president-donald-trumps-inauguration-speech.html

We will build new roads, and highways, and bridges, and airports, and tunnels, and railways all across our wonderful nation.....

Finally, we must think big and dream even bigger.

In America, we understand that a nation is only living as long as it is striving.

We will no longer accept politicians who are all talk and no action – constantly complaining but never doing anything about it.

The time for empty talk is over.

Now arrives the hour of action.

Do not let anyone tell you it cannot be done.  No challenge can match the heart and fight and spirit of America.

We will not fail. Our country will thrive and prosper again.

Start within Washington, D.C.

http://wwwtripwithinthebeltway.blogspot.com/2012/03/new-dc-95-project.html

http://wwwtripwithinthebeltway.blogspot.com/2015/01/i-95-should-go-through-washington-dc.html

http://wwwtripwithinthebeltway.blogspot.com/2015/01/grand-arc.html

http://wwwtripwithinthebeltway.blogspot.com/2008/07/new-i-395-gateway-if-its-coordinated.html

http://wwwtripwithinthebeltway.blogspot.com/2007/11/i-395-extension-superior-option.html

http://wwwtripwithinthebeltway.blogspot.com/2007/09/washington-dc-big-dig.html

http://wwwtripwithinthebeltway.blogspot.com/2016/10/the-new-york-times-covers-capitol.html

A Digital Reconstruction of Early Washington, D.C.

It would be good to see a project as this regarding the development of the Washington, D.C. Freeway System- Built and Proposed Variants

https://youtu.be/jC1snu3J8wo

Brought to my attention here: http://ghostsofdc.org/2012/01/25/video-visualizing-early-washington-d-c/?utm_source=campaign-monitor-recycle&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Video+Visualizing+Early+Washington%2C+D.C.&utm_content=item-2

Created by this company: https://www.irc.umbc.edu/

Relief For Washington D.C.'s Truncated Freeway System?

excerpt from:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/10/us/politics/trump-speech-transcript.html?_r=0

"...We are going to fix our inner cities and rebuild our highways, bridges, tunnels, airports, schools, hospitals. We’re going to rebuild our infrastructure, which will become, by the way, second to none. And we will put millions of our people to work as we rebuild it...."

Tysons Corners Circle Proposed

The New York Times Covers 'Capitol Crossing' Project

Not a mention of this project's give-way to developers of the public's right of way:

http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/26/realestate/commercial/a-project-mends-a-gash-in-the-street-grid-of-washington.html?_r=0

See the other articles about this developer give-away that squanders 50% of the below ground level Center Leg Freeway's design capacity, and even disregards safety by squeezing the median shoulders, at the tag below.

See:  http://wwwtripwithinthebeltway.blogspot.com/2016/03/center-leg-capitol-crossing.html