Washington Outer Beltway
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The Washington Outer Beltway was a proposed freeway that would have extended further out than the Capital Beltway
and encircled Washington, D.C.
through the states of Maryland
and Virginia
. Most of the route was canceled in the 1980s.
Parts of it have been built as the following roads:
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...
and encircled Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C.
Washington, D.C., formally the District of Columbia and commonly referred to as Washington, "the District", or simply D.C., is the capital of the United States. On July 16, 1790, the United States Congress approved the creation of a permanent national capital as permitted by the U.S. Constitution....
through the states of Maryland
Maryland
Maryland is a U.S. state located in the Mid Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east...
and Virginia
Virginia
The Commonwealth of Virginia , is a U.S. state on the Atlantic Coast of the Southern United States. Virginia is nicknamed the "Old Dominion" and sometimes the "Mother of Presidents" after the eight U.S. presidents born there...
. Most of the route was canceled in the 1980s.
Parts of it have been built as the following roads:
- Fairfax County ParkwayFairfax County ParkwayThe Fairfax County Parkway, signed as State Route 7100, is a secondary state highway in the U.S. state of Virginia. It provides a north–south arterial route in Fairfax County with a mix of interchanges and signalized and unsignalized intersections. Its alignment roughly corresponds to part of...
in Virginia - Intercounty ConnectorIntercounty ConnectorMaryland Route 200 , more commonly known as the Intercounty Connector or ICC, is a partially completed toll freeway under construction in Maryland which connects Gaithersburg in Montgomery County and Laurel in Prince George's County. When completed, it will reach the community of Konterra just...
in Maryland, a toll road currently under construction. (The first segment opened to traffic in February 2011, and the second segment opened to traffic on November 22nd, 2011, thus linking Interstate 270 at Gaithersburg, MD to Interstate 95 at Laurel, MD). A third segment, which would link I-95 to US-1 in Laurel was put on hold, and a completion date remains unspecified as of November 2011.