![]() On the Friday before Memorial Day, delays usually begin closer to Peoria. The weather-closure of the reversible lane will cause shore-bound traffic to backup into Ohio. By the time you approach the Chesapeake Bay Bridge, it will be raining. One of the DMV’s favorite Friday activities is to collectively decide to drive to the Eastern Shore at the exact same time. If your car becomes disabled on the westbound Southeast-Southwest Freeway’s northbound South Capitol Street ramp, you will never be found. If you’re involved in a crash, make sure to tell the dispatcher that you’re at Exit 1, so dozens of rescue personnel take at least an hour looking for you on the wrong road. On the District’s freeway system, there are roughly a trillion Exit 1s within about three miles of each other. Note: The southbound exit number for the bridge is Exit 1, but if you’re northbound, Exit 1 is Pennsylvania Avenue for some reason that transcends comprehension. Another popular meetup spot is the ramp from DC-295 to the 11th Street Bridge. There are several spinout leagues around the region. Bonus points are awarded to anyone who manages to snap a yellow chevron sign on their off-road adventure. Whenever it drizzles, eager northbound drivers will line up in excitement on the GW Parkway and take turns spinning out and overturning on the ramp to the Inner Loop of the Capital Beltway. There are tens of thousands of crashes on the GW Parkway near Key Bridge annually. The Baltimore-Washington, Clara Barton, George Washington and Rock Creek parkways are scenic byways through bucolic national forestland on which hundreds of thousands of commuters take gentle curves at breakneck speed. ![]() ![]() The rest of the revenue comes from tickets with doubled fines that were erroneously issued outside of work zones. And 99.9% of the revenue comes from one camera located on the tunnel-expressway portion of K Street below Washington Circle, where there are no pedestrians and there is no cross-traffic, yet the speed limit is curiously set at 25 mph. automated speed enforcement program nets about $800 billion annually, roughly the GDP of Switzerland. Instead, the road is known as the Baltimore-Washington Parkway until you get past Fort Meade, where the parkway is known as MD-295. Except MD-295 isn’t signed because that would be too easy. Route 50, where the same stretch of road that just turned from DC-295 to Kenilworth Avenue changes to MD-295. But only for a quarter of a mile up to U.S. That is, until you get to the Maryland state line where the entire six-lane roadway suddenly becomes Kenilworth Avenue. Except technically, only the service road in Northeast is Kenilworth Avenue. DC-295 is also congested 28 hours a day, 10 days a week.ĭC-295 and I-295 are often conflated, even though the whole corridor is named the Anacostia Freeway. The average is lowered by drivers slamming on their brakes near the speed cameras and hairpin exit ramps. The average speed on DC-295 is a relaxed 80 mph. Local authorities always refer to I-295 as DC-295 and DC-295 as I-295, possibly to mess with people or possibly because they genuinely don’t know the difference. No one knows what this freeway is called either, so they simply refer to it as “that road behind the Kennedy Center.” If you need to tell someone what road you’re on, you can refer to it as “that road behind the Kennedy Center” but they might assume you’re talking about the E Street Expressway, which is an entirely different road.Īnother freeway in the District is I-295, not to be confused with DC-295. Some people refer to it as West Side Highway.Īnother busy freeway that runs through D.C. No one knows what the freeway is called or numbered though. Friday rush hour started during the Hoover administration and will last until the end of time and space.Įast-west travel through the District of Columbia is impossible, unless you’re on the Southeast-Southwest Freeway where the average speed is 90 mph. ![]() Remember, everything written here comes from a place of love (and maybe just a smidge from a place of absolute fury).ĭ.C. traffic is nothing new, but as a veteran traffic reporter, WTOP’s Dave Dildine can do it like few others.
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