State Route 295 and 702 in Maryland
State Route 295 in Maryland
| SR-295 | |||
| Get started | Washington | ||
| End | Baltimore | ||
| Length | 32 mi | ||
| Length | 52 km | ||
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State Route 295 is a state route and parkway in the U.S. state of Maryland, and the District of Columbia. The road is entirely a highway, namely the Anacostia Freeway and the Washington-Baltimore Parkway and connects the Washington and Baltimore metropolitan areas. The route is 58 kilometers long.
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Travel directions
State Route 295 south of Baltimore.
Washington
The highway begins as the Anacostia Freeway when SR-295 branches off Interstate 295 in southern Washington. The highway has 2×2 lanes here, which later becomes wider, 2×3 lanes. One passes a little east of the center, in the suburbs. In northeast Washington, the road is called Kenilworth Avenue. Then you arrive in the state of Maryland, where you almost immediately cross the US 50. At Cheverly the road narrows again to 2×2 lanes, passing through several small suburbs. Here the road is already called the Baltimore-Washington Parkway.
At Greenbelt one crosses Interstate 95, which is double numbered with Interstate 495. One then goes to Baltimore, parallel to I-95. The Parkway is off-limits to freight traffic, which must use I-95. A total of four highways run between Washington and Baltimore, two of which are highways for their entire length. After Greenbelt you enter the interurban area, the area between the Washington and Baltimore metropolitan areas, where there are a few suburbs, but also a lot of nature.
Baltimore
At Laurel, SR-32 crosses the Patuxent Highway, which connects Annapolis to Columbia, and is a tangential link in the interurban area. The parkway continues to have 2×2 lanes after that, and at Severn it intersects with SR-100, which forms a southern bypass of the Baltimore suburbs. One then passes by Baltimore-Washington International Airport, and crosses Interstate 195, a short highway connecting the airport to I-95.
In the suburb of Pumphrey, one crosses Interstate 695, Baltimore ‘s ring road. Then the road widens to 2×3 lanes. It then crosses Interstate 895, where there are only limited interchange options. One then enters the city of Baltimore itself, and the highway ends at Interstate 95 just south of downtown.
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History
The highway was first proposed in the 1920s by some business groups in Baltimore and Washington. Their proposals were based on New York ‘s extensive parkway system. In 1924 the road became a political matter. The proposals resurfaced in the 1930s, but it was not until 1947 that the first 20 kilometers were built, and by 1950 the road was fully constructed, and in 1950 the first section opened south of the city of Baltimore. The section opened in the city of Baltimore in 1951 and the highway was completed in 1954. It was the first highway in Maryland.
In 2002, a twenty-year modernization plan worth $177 million was completed. This mainly concerned the modernization of exits, no additional lanes were built. There are plans to widen the road in the Baltimore area.
Opening history
| From | Unpleasant | Length | Date |
| I-195 | I-895 | 6 km | 12-1950 |
| I-895 | I-95 | 4 km | 1951 |
| jessup | I-195 | 9 km | 1952 |
| I-595 | jessup | 31 km | 1954 |
Future
On September 21, 2017, it was announced that State Route 295 will be equipped with express lanes. Two toll lanes in each direction are planned on State Route 295 on the portion between I-695 in Baltimore and I-495 in Washington. This requires the management of the highway to be transferred from the Department of the Interior to the State Highway Administration of Maryland. The Baltimore-Washington Parkway is operated by the National Park Service.
Traffic intensities
| Location | 2016 |
| 117,000 | |
| MD-450 | 113,000 |
| 116,000 | |
| MD-193 | 105,000 |
| South Laurel | 107,000 |
| Laurel (MD-198) | 102,000 |
| 116,000 | |
| jessup | 106,000 |
| 103,000 | |
| 116,000 | |
| 99,000 | |
| 73,000 |
State Route 702 in Maryland
| SR-702 | |||
| Get started | Essex | ||
| End | Essex | ||
| Length | 4 mi | ||
| Length | 7 km | ||
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State Route 702 is a state route and partial freeway in the U.S. state of Maryland, located in Essex in the southeast Baltimore metropolitan area. The road is 7 kilometers long.
Travel directions
State Route 702 begins at the interchange with Interstate 695, the Baltimore Beltway. The I-695 from Baltimore becomes the SR-702 here, traffic that wants to follow the I-695 should turn off. State Route 702 is then another highway for over 2 kilometers, the Southeast Freeway. There is one grade separation with Eastern Boulevard, after which the highway ends at an intersection with Old Eastern Avenue. The road then continues as a 2×2 divided highway with traffic lights until Back River Road.
History
State Route 702 was originally planned as part of the Baltimore Beltway, I-695. The highway would run through Essex and then branch off towards the Francis Scott Key Bridge. A junction with the Windlass Freeway has also been built on the north side of Essex. The highway opened to traffic in 1974. After that, I-695 crossed the Windlass Freeway, making the Southeast Freeway just a two-mile highway, one of the shortest in Maryland. In 1989-1990 the road was extended as a 2×2 boulevard to Back River Road.
