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District Of Columbia Route 295
District of Columbia Route 295 (DC 295), also known as the Anacostia Freeway as well as the Kenilworth Avenue Freeway north of East Capitol Street, is a controlled-access highway, freeway in the District of Columbia, and currently the only signed numbered route in the District that is not an Interstate Highway System, Interstate Highway or United States Numbered Highways, U.S. Highway. Also, DC 295 is one of the few city-level signed route numbers in the United States, along with Charlotte Route 4, Charlotte Route 4. The south end is at the junction of Interstate 295 (Maryland-District of Columbia), I-295, Interstate 695 (District of Columbia), I-695, and the southern end of the 11th Street Bridges, though I-295 was originally part of DC 295. Its north end is at the border with Maryland where it connects to Baltimore–Washington Parkway, MD 295 (the Baltimore–Washington Parkway) and U.S. Route 50, US 50 via Maryland Route 201, MD 201. Route description DC ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Federal Highway Administration
The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is a division of the United States Department of Transportation that specializes in highway transportation. The agency's major activities are grouped into two programs, the Federal-aid Highway Program and the Federal Lands Highway Program. Its role had previously been performed by the Office of Road Inquiry, Office of Public Roads and the Bureau of Public Roads. History Background The organization has several predecessor organizations and complicated history. The Office of Road Inquiry (ORI) was founded in 1893. In 1905, that organization's name was changed to the Office of Public Roads (OPR) which became a division of the United States Department of Agriculture. The name was changed again to the Bureau of Public Roads in 1915 and to the Public Roads Administration (PRA) in 1939. It was then shifted to the Federal Works Agency which was abolished in 1949 when its name reverted to Bureau of Public Roads under the Department of Commerce ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
