To: Olog-hai
Except the Long Island Expressway is not a beltway around a city. It go from and end point to the city and does not even connect with I-95. Don’t know why the planners let that happen, except some senator in the 60s or 70s was probably needed for a vote.
To: Steven Scharf
Robert Moses may have had plans that were never executed....
14 posted on
05/05/2017 5:38:01 PM PDT by
Paladin2
(No spelchk nor wrong word auto substition mobile devices. Please be intelligent and deal with it....)
To: Steven Scharf
Doesn’t have to be a beltway for the designation
FWICS. Merely a connector.
The I-495 designation was part of the New Jersey connector road to the Lincoln Tunnel for many years. This was supposed to have been directly connected to the
LIE by the
Mid-Manhattan Expressway, which Nelson Rockefeller ended up effectively killing—NYC is so much the worse for it too, and 42
nd Street is an eternal mess thanks to that.
16 posted on
05/05/2017 5:41:32 PM PDT by
Olog-hai
To: Steven Scharf
I believe it was originally intended to go right through Manhattan. There was an I-495 on the Jersey side that went through the Lincoln Tunnel and then ended, but it was later decommissioned and is now New Jersey 495.
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