Re: Why did they build the I-270 Spur???
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Inside the spur
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Date: February 14, 2018 09:11PM
Wikipedia covers this Wrote:
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> The Interstate system was designed in the 1950s.
> Baltimore was a booming industrial and port city
> that needed access to the Midwest, so I-70 went
> there. There already existed a state road
> connecting Frederick Maryland with DC, and
> portions of that road were upgraded and
> incorporated into the interstate system as I-70S.
> At one time there were plans to extend it into DC.
That only refers to I-270 itself, not the spur. Why is there a spur? What's it like to live inside the spur?