Interstate 495
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Interstate 495 is the designation for several Interstate Highways in the United States, all of which are related to Interstate 95:
The following roads used to be numbered I-495:
- Interstate 495 (Capital Beltway)Interstate 495 (Capital Beltway)Interstate 495 is a Interstate Highway that surrounds the United States' capital of Washington, D.C., and its inner suburbs in adjacent Maryland and Virginia. I-495 is widely known as the Capital Beltway or simply the Beltway, especially when the context of Washington, D.C., is clear...
, a beltway around Washington, D.C., commonly known as the Capital Beltway - Interstate 495 (Delaware)Interstate 495 (Delaware)Interstate 495 in Delaware is a six-lane bypass of Interstate 95 around the city of Wilmington, Delaware. Built in the mid-1970s and opened as the "Wilmington Bypass", the highway became, between 1978 and 1982, the route of I-95 around Wilmington, while the original highway through the city,...
, a bypass of Wilmington, Delaware - Interstate 495 (New York)Interstate 495 (New York)Interstate 495 is an auxiliary Interstate Highway on Long Island in New York in the United States. The route extends for from the western portal of the Queens-Midtown Tunnel in the New York City borough of Manhattan to County Route 58 in Riverhead, Suffolk County...
, a spur east from New York City, New York, commonly known as the Long Island Expressway - Interstate 495 (Massachusetts)Interstate 495 (Massachusetts)Interstate 495 is the designation of an Interstate Highway half-beltway in Massachusetts. It was the longest auxiliary Interstate Highway of its kind—measuring 120.74 miles —until 1996, when the PA Route 9 section of the Pennsylvania Turnpike was redesignated as Interstate 476, making it about ...
, a partial beltway around Boston, Massachusetts - Interstate 495 (Maine)Interstate 495 (Maine)Interstate 495 is the unsigned designation for the Falmouth Spur, a short freeway connecting Interstate 95 with Interstate 295 and U.S. Route 1 north of Portland, Maine, United States. As part of the Maine Turnpike, the main line of which carries Interstate 95, I-495 is a toll road. The spur has...
, an unsigned connector in Portland, Maine
The following roads used to be numbered I-495:
- New Jersey Route 495, a western continuation of New York's I-495
- New York State Route 495, approach to the Lincoln Tunnel in Manhattan