Windlass Freeway

The Windlass Freeway is a 1.5-mileMaryland State Highway Administration, [http://www.sha.state.md.us/KeepingCurrent/performTrafficStudies/dataAndStats/hwyLocationRef/oppe/hlr.asp Highway Location Reference] , 2005] (2.5 km) freeway in southeastern Baltimore County, Maryland, United States, forming a piece of Interstate 695 (the Baltimore Beltway). Plans were made to extend the road in both directions, west to Interstate 95 at Moravia Road in Baltimore and northeast to Chase, near the present end of Maryland Route 150. [Baltimore County Circuit Court, Land Survey, Subdivision, and Condominium Plats, [http://plato.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/stagser/s1500/s1529/cfm/dsp_unit.cfm?county=ba&qualifier=C&series=2140&unit=2560 Right of Way 38932, Windlass Freeway, Patapsco Freeway to Southeast Freeway] , August 15, 1974: the Windlass Freeway is shown as "to East West Expressway" (now I-95) and "to Chase".] The freeway was to carry Maryland Route 149,Fact|date=June 2007 but only the portion that carries I-695 was built, from the Patapsco Freeway (also I-695) at Chesaco Park northeast to the Southeast Freeway (I-695 and MD 702) near Essex.

Ramp stubs are present at the proposed west end at I-95 and Moravia Road, [Google Maps, [http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=baltimore,+md&ie=UTF8&ll=39.304948,-76.529689&spn=0.011589,0.022573&t=k&z=16&om=0 Satellite view of the I-95/Moravia Road interchange] ] [ [http://www.roadstothefuture.com/I70-I170-I95-I395.html Roads to the Future: I-70, I-170, I-95, I-395, I-83 Interchanges] (includes a planning map that shows the proposed interchange as of December 1970)] and at the present east end at the Southeast Freeway. [Google Maps, [http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=baltimore,+md&ie=UTF8&t=k&om=0&ll=39.324164,-76.480583&spn=0.005793,0.011287&z=17 Satellite view of the I-695/MD 702 interchange] ] American Automobile Association, Baltimore Triptik insert, 1976 (shows the proposed extensions at each end)] The junction of the Windlass and Patapsco Freeways was originally built with provisions for extensions of each, but this has since been reconstructed. [Google Maps, [http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=baltimore,+md&ie=UTF8&t=k&om=0&ll=39.312801,-76.501794&spn=0.011588,0.022573&z=16&iwloc=addr Satellite view of the transition between the Windlass Freeway and Patapsco Freeway] ] Because neither of these extensions was built, I-695 has no exit 37.

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