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08/24/2018 at 09:49 • Filed to: Disco-era Highway Signage
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"someassemblyrequired" (someassemblyrequired)
08/24/2018 at 09:49 • Filed to: Disco-era Highway Signage | 2
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DC Oppos will have seen this mystery sign over the past 40 years - concealed since the 1970s. Yesterday DDOT took it down - it is actually a sign for the ill-fated I-695 South Leg. Only the section to Independence Avenue was completed, but it would have passed underground on the Virginia side of the Lincoln Memorial and along the mall before meeting up with the existing Southeast
Freeway (the current I-695) as part of an “Inner Beltway.
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ttyymmnn
> someassemblyrequired
08/24/2018 at 10:00 |
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I have driven that exact stretch of highway. Thank god for Google Maps.
pip bip - choose Corrour
> someassemblyrequired
08/24/2018 at 10:03 |
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interesting read.
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someassemblyrequired
> ttyymmnn
08/24/2018 at 10:03 |
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DC signage is a trainwreck, and the Virginia side around the Pentagon/National Airport and Arlington National Cemetery are nearly as bad. I don’t know how anyone functioned in this town pre-Waze.
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ttyymmnn
> someassemblyrequired
08/24/2018 at 10:47 |
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Last time we used Waze/GMap s exclusively (we went for my mother-in-law’s interment at Arlington) and had no problems . Time before that we got insanely lost just trying to get back across the river to VA.
ranwhenparked
> someassemblyrequired
08/24/2018 at 14:17 |
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The same way they do now - ride in the left lane until you see the sign for your exit, then immediately slam on your brakes and cut across 3 lanes of traffic without signaling or checking the mirrors.