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There appear to be a variety of disparate methods for referring to spur or loop Interstate routes.
Personally, I prefer #1 (coupled with #2 to allow development of additional information where warrented). I do not like having articles like Capital Beltway or Interstate 295 (Florida) appearing in Category:U.S. Interstate Highway system--it disrupts the otherwise uniformity of the numbering. That's not to say the Capital Beltway article should be moved. I suggest that the Interstate 495 article be formatted more like #1 with a link to the Capital Beltway article. The Capital Beltway article would NOT be in Category:U.S. Interstate Highway system. I'd prefer it not be in the various Category:Interstate highways in STATE, although it should be in Category:Transportation in STATE.
This question is more general than just this article, but I could locate a more appropriate forum at this point. Perhaps there is a wikiproject about Interstates. older≠ wiser 13:36, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)
For the record, I've created Category:Three-digit Interstate Highways to keep the main category from getting too big as I split the Interstates into separate articles. -- SPUI ( talk) 20:48, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
Yesterday I moved Interstate 495 back to Capital Beltway. There are numerous "Interstate 495s." Please discuss moves like this before carrying them out. I'm restoring this page -- Interstate 495 (Capital Beltway) -- again, since this is an unusual and nonstandard page title. Thanks, BCorr| Брайен 11:56, 20 Jul 2004 (UTC)
The move to this title was a poor decision as it gives the impression that the highway is in the District. Even though a small, less then even a mile, portion is in the district the majority of the highways lies in Maryland and Virginia. I am going to change the name back to Capital Beltway or maybe Interstate 495 (Capital Beltway), which it should have stayed as in the first place. -- User:Boothy443 | comhrÚ 20:20, 21 Feb 2005 (UTC)
How precisely is this article outside of project compliance? The only thing that comes to mind is the article's name, which is discussed below; what else could be wrong with it? Is it the exit list? - TheOneKEA
Done with the exit list. Phew, my arm hurts. -- MPD T / C 23:58, 30 January 2007 (UTC)
Why is there a warning at the beginning of this section saying that it may be of a speculative nature? Everything that is says is completely incontrovertible truth and merely reflects construction that is mostly finished already. This warning label should be removed. Furthermore, there are more future aspirations for this road such as possible interchange reconfiguration and HOV and/or HOT lanes to be added. Even those are not truly of a speculative nature as those can be referenced on the VDOT website. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by BHolmberg ( talk • contribs) 04:17, 7 February 2007 (UTC).
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I looked and searched for a few terms, but couldn't find:
Did I miss them? — EncMstr 00:34, 25 August 2007 (UTC)
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In the table of exits, I believe the column heading Old is incorrectly positioned above the New exit numbers. Dgorsline ( talk) 20:56, 20 November 2007 (UTC)
The cite on this page does not support the total mileage provided since FHWA does not recognize the eastern "half" of the Beltway as I-495. If you look at the FHWA Log provided in the citation, the total mileages provided are only for the western half, from the I-95/I-495/I-395 intersection in Virginia, westward to the northern I-95/I-495 interchange (via the I-270 interchange). Dnrothx ( talk) 14:51, 11 February 2008 (UTC)
What is the point of including so many highways outside of Maryland? Is there some particular relevance specifically to the Capital Beltway, and if so why don't we include it in the main article? -- Bossi ( talk • gallery • contrib) 04:03, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
There have not been that many Capital Beltway widening projects!
From memory, they were:
Maryland, PRIOR TO completion of entire Beltway: Section between present-day I-270 and Md. 185 (to six lanes) Section between Md. 97 and Md. 193 (to six lanes)
Maryland, early 1970's: Section between Wilson Bridge and (roughly) Seminary Road (near Mormon Temple) in Silver Spring (six lanes to eight lanes)
Virginia, mid 1970's: Section between Springfield Interchange and American Legion Bridge (four lanes to eight lanes) Section between Wilson Bridge and Springfield (six lanes to eight lanes)
Maryland, late 1980's Section between Seminary Road and I-270 (six lanes to eight lanes)
Maryland, early 1990's American Legion Bridge (six lanes to ten lanes)
Maryland, early 1990's Section between American Legion Bridge and I-270Y (I-270 Spur) (six lanes to eight or ten lanes)
Maryland/Virginia (2000 through 2010) Section between Md. 210 and Va. 243 (Six or eight lanes to ten lanes) Cpzilliacus ( talk) 04:09, 19 June 2008 (UTC)
There are no "dedicated ramps" at either I-270 interchange to or from the Beltway. The HOV lanes to and from 495 west end prior to the interchange, and the HOV lanes on the spur begin at the point where 495 splits from 270, on the inside of the interchange. There's nothing special about those. Excluding the ramps to and from Washington on I-66 (due to its special HOV status), the only thing notable about the ramps there are that there are two to 66 west from 495 north (left and right entrances and exits), and technically two to 495 north, one from the left and right of 66, both merging on the left to 495 north (the left exit serves 495 south). Any traffic can use the left exit to 66 west, but has to vacate the left lane upon merging with I-66 during HOV times unless they can use HOV. Likewise, any traffic can use the left exit to 495 south (which involves entering the HOV lane). So that said, as soon as I get some free time, I'll be cleaning up those instances in the article, which will be within the next few days. -- MPD T / C 05:05, 9 July 2008 (UTC)
I'd like to get a sense of the community regarding splitting off discussion of the HOT lanes into a new article, perhaps Virginia I-495 high-occupancy toll lanes. This project is huge in scope as to what it is doing to the Virginia side of the Capital Beltway. Driving through 90% of the extent of the project every day (both ways) has given me a very strong appreciation of the work involved. Between the news stories and dedicated sites such as Virginia HOT Lanes and Virginia Megaprojects there are lots of verifiable primary sources to call on.
To create such an article, I propose reworking the current roadworks section of the main article and undertaking a major expansion. That section currently discusses three projects. The Springfield Interchange is done. Work going on there now is related to the HOT lanes. The Wilson Bridge still needs some discussion as it is a couple of years from finishing up. With that, the HOT lanes can be split into a sub-section and material can start to be added. Once the section reaches a large enough size it can then be split into its own article.
Why do this? The HOT lanes are essential a parallel road to the beltway. Except for the northern and southern terminus, access to the HOT lanes are not from the beltway. For all other interchanges, the HOT lanes have separate on and off ramps leading to surface roads. In a number of cases, these ramps are not concurrent with beltway ramps. Treating the HOT lanes as a separate road allows for discussion of this ramp structure to the same detail given the existing beltway ramps without confusing the topics.
I'd like to get some opinions on this before starting work. It would be a shame to start such an expansion just to have someone come along, cry "undue weight!", and chop back the new material. -- StuffOfInterest ( talk) 12:31, 15 September 2009 (UTC)
I'm going to be a good Samaritan and head off anyone who is tempted to change the spelling of CapitAl to CapitOl throughout the article. Call me a Californian, but I simply never knew until I double-checked myself that "capitOl" is only used for a specific building or complex of buildings, and the city said building resides in is a "capitAl" city. (See this Wiktionary article.) So don't make that change! -- Mrcolj ( talk) 21:06, 21 September 2010 (UTC)
One of the early sentences in this section talks about how I-295 connects with I-395 in D.C. No, it doesn't. I-395 leaves the Southeast/Southwest Freeway and ends at Mass. Ave. near Union Station. The rest of the SE/SW freeway is unsigned I-695. THIS is what connects with I-295.
This sentence is very confusing, anyway. When I first read it I thought it was saying that the Beltway in MD connects with I-395, and I thought, "That interchange is in Virginia!". Unless there are objections, I'll work on this section. -- Tim Sabin ( talk) 14:03, 3 March 2011 (UTC)
I've just edited a political article by adding a quotation that refers to the Beltway, using it as a metaphor for the political-media conglomerate in Washington, D.C. I linked the term to this article. The problem is that doing so arguably spreads more confusion than light. I'm thinking of non-U.S. readers, who aren't familiar with this meaning of "Beltway". Certainly the article should continue to be about the highway, as a highway, but perhaps there could be a section on how the term is used more broadly? JamesMLane t c 06:15, 27 July 2011 (UTC)
For THAT page, I have just suggested reference to I-94 in the last two exit numbers on that article's exit list, because those exit numbers are from a different highway (I-94). The exit number references in the table in THIS (I-495 beltway in Md./Va./DC) article are not affected, and it's explained in the text that the high exit numbers going counterclockwise from I-395 to the Woodrow Wilson Bridge are taken from the mileposts of I-95 in Virginia. OK? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 128.63.16.82 ( talk) 20:11, 31 August 2011 (UTC)
"I-495 is widely known as the Capital Beltway or simply the Beltway, especially when the context of Washington, D.C., is clear." aka " I-495 is widely known as the Capital Beltway or simply the Beltway is clear."
I don't normally do wiki corrections or anything but I just noticed this and thought I'd leave it here for someone.
Just a heads up, this edit was done by me while not logged in. I didn't realize the site had automatically logged me out after 30 days. I'm not trying any funny business like socking, I just wanted to clear that up. Smartyllama ( talk) 00:02, 12 October 2015 (UTC)
The result of the move request was: Consensus to move to "Capital Beltway" b uidh e 00:20, 19 April 2020 (UTC)
Interstate 495 (Capital Beltway) →
Interstate 495 (Maryland-Virginia) – all other 3-digit Interstate highway articles where at least 2 highways of that number that are current, official, and signed are dis-ambiguated by the state they're in, not by an arbitrary nickname.
Georgia guy (
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01:17, 12 April 2020 (UTC)
This article has been receiving large additions of text to the route description section, specifically the subsection about the beltway in Maryland. Overall, this is way too much text, causing the RD to be lengthier than high-quality articles on highways five times as long. That much prose creates a wall of text that no one will bother to wade through to read. Imzadi 1979 → 01:50, 14 April 2020 (UTC)
In order to accommodate the large additions to the section of I-495 between the Woodrow Wilson Bridge and Tysons Corner with future additions about the Virginia section, it should be proposed that this article be split into three articles between Interstate 495 in Maryland, Interstate 495 in Virginia, and Interstate 495 with an even lesser brief description that what was there before. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2601:202:203:ba70:e908:5b30:95ed:6ed3 ( talk) 01:06, 15 April 2020 (UTC)
Nothing in that section is “current” Famartin ( talk) 18:09, 11 June 2021 (UTC)
A discussion is taking place to address the redirect
Interstate 95 and Interstate 495. The discussion will occur at
Wikipedia:Redirects for discussion/Log/2021 August 17#Interstate 95 and Interstate 495 until a consensus is reached, and readers of this page are welcome to contribute to the discussion.
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