It sure is a good thing that certain people aren’t in charge of our city’s transportation plans."

Funny how you chose to defend two roads that disproportionately benefit non-District residents. Perhaps you shouldn't be calling it "our" city.

Besides, for the record I think the Whitehurst is fine the way it is. The reason the Georgetown waterfront is atrocious has nothing to do with the Whitehurst. It's because the waterfront is atrocious. Fix the actual waterfront itself, and then we'll see if the Whitehurst has anything to do with it's lack of success.

The best part about this is that Barry was one of the people who helped stop the DC interstate proposals back in the 70's and Glendening is nationally famous as a smart-growth (and thus, anti-urban highway) leader. Just imagine how they would respond to Marshall.

I still like Mike Huckabee's idea to solve traffic congestion the best from one of the Republican debates: just add a lane to I-95 in each direction, for its entire length. That would stop congestion in its tracks.

Are these people serious!?

I use the stretch north of E to shave a few minutes off trips uptown esp when coming from the east. I think the plan all along has been to build over it, at least the section you note between E and Mass Ave.

It sure is a good thing that certain people aren't in charge of our city's transportation plans.

I didn't know about the Barry crony. Is that the same one that sat on 7th st. for a decade without doing anything? At least when Jemal sits on a site for a decade he normally actually does something. Eventually.

As far as it dead-ending at NY Avenue, if you look at the Roads to the Future site, 395 as it is was meant to be a "center leg" in a system with unbuilt north, east, and west legs (it's still referred to as the "Center Leg Expressway: by many today). The center leg would have connected to an expressway out NEW York Ave to US 50 and the B-W Parkway. An expressway more or less following the B&O Metropolitan line would swing up toward Brookland and beyond and the Southeast/Southwest Freeway would swing up around RFK past Kingman Park and and connect to that

Luckily---IMHO---those plans were scrapped in the 1970s around the time when folks realized the benefits of urban expressways weren't worth the costs in terms of what they did to neighborhoods. Various expressways proposed over the years would have destroyed parts of today's Adams Morgan, Columbia Heights, Brookland, Kingman Park, Trinidad, and other neighborhoods.