I-95 comes in from the west, I-295 went out to the east. Scale is approximately 1 km per grid square.
I-95 was planned to be a complete through route along the East Coast, intended to run from Miami, FL to the Canadian border at Houlton, ME. Unfortunately, this will not come to be. There are three sections where local 'NIMBY' opposition got the best of it. The two 'urban' sections, those being in the Boston and Washington, DC areas were 'completed' using a 'Plan 'B'', by rerouting the number to the freeway bypass (and there is a slight possibility that the Washington, DC section MIGHT yet be completed via New York Av, stay tuned). The OTHER uncompleted section would have run from the Trenton, NJ area to the New Jersey Turnpike (interchange 10), and was NIMBYed by the locals in the Lawsonton, NJ area (the New Jersey Turnpike Authority breathed a sigh of relief when this poject was cancelled, too).
The 'wide spot' in the freeway here is the south end of this incomplete section. This was designed and graded as a full 'directional 'Y'' interchange, and the 'ghost ramp' grades are still there (they were never noted by the USGS). The route numbering changed from I-95 to I-295 going eastward through here, although the maps I have are not totally clear on whether I-95 has been 'extended' to the US 1 interchange, a short distance to the east. It is doubtfull that US 1 will ever be upgraded to become that 'missing' section of I-95, though. The origional I-95 routing will also likely never be resurrected, as several sections of the proposed right-of-way, including immediately north of the ghost interchange, have been developed (I-95 was planned as an 8 lane freeway along the east bank of the creek as it passes through the 'new' neighborhood). There are 'stuttering' proposals to 'complete' this section by constructing a new interchange between I-95 and the Pennsylvania Turnpike (I-276), and running I-95 via the New Jersey Turnpike north of there, however, it is not a wildly popular idea in the local area around this proposed new interchange.
*I ADVOCATE* rerouting I-95 to the entire length of the New Jersey Turnpike, renumbering the current I-95 in Philadelphia to I-87, and developing a new 'I-87' corridor roughly along NJ 31, US 202 and current I-287 (plus making other necessary related adjustments in the '3di' numbering in the NYC metro area).
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