Capital Beltway

Because it's a Beltway, I-495 is signed Inner and Outer, but it still gives cardinal directions as much as they're relevant. This northbound is on the inner loop, as you can see, but after I-495 meets I-95, it becomes northbound on the outer loop to match its parent. I-495's exit numbers start at the Maryland line on the Wilson Bridge, continue counterclockwise into Maryland, and end at the I-95 Springfield Interchange (where I-95's exit numbers pick up for the rest of the ride into Maryland).


The Dulles Toll Road is a straight connector to and past IAD, while the free road is still freeway but has local exits, and ends in the airport. There was recently a Dulles Greenway extension that took the tollway westward to VA 7/US 15 in Leesburg. This photo is northbound (Inner).


VA 123 SB at VA 267, the Dulles Airport Access Road, with Exit 46 on the Beltway approaching a mile ahead. This style of gantry is also present on the I-66 bridge coming out of DC, and probably dates to the early 1960's. These signs just might be that old, but likely they were replaced once sometime in the 1970's or 1980's.


Now southbound/outer, again demonstrating how Virginia mounts its exit tabs distinctively separate from the main sign.

I-495 with I-95: Springfield Interchange, Wilson Bridge
Lou's photos of I-95/495

Into Maryland on I-495
Exit 47 to VA 7
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