Interstate 695 (District Of Columbia)
Numbered Highways in Washington, D.C.
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Interstate 695 (I-695) is the designation for the 2-mile Southeast Freeway in Washington, D.C. It runs from Interstate 395 south of the United States Capitol building east then south across the 11th Street Bridges to a junction with Interstate 295 and D.C. Route 295 in Anacostia.
Access also exists from eastbound Interstate 695 to Pennsylvania Avenue at Barney Circle, just northwest of the John Philip Sousa Bridge. Stub ramps at Pennsylvania Avenue, once meant to continue the freeway (as part of I-295) to Interstate 95 and U.S. Route 50 northeast of Union Station—with access to via the Whitney Young Memorial Bridge (East Capitol Street)—now provide access to Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium.
Though the I-695 designation has existed since near the birth of the Interstate Highway System, the route was only signed in late 2011 along with the 11th Street Bridges reconstruction project.
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