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Interstate 295 is the designation for several interstate highway loop, spur, or bypass routes associated with Interstate 95, which spans the east coast of the United States.
The 35.51 mile (57.15km) long Interstate 295 in Florida loops around the west side of Jacksonville, Florida. The Buckman Bridge carries Interstate 295 traffic over the St. Johns River in Jacksonville. By 2006 Interstate 295 will loop around the entire city. The east part of the loop, which is only partially completed, is now referred to as Florida 9A, which the Dames Point Bridge is a part of. When completed, the entire loop will be renamed I-295.
The zero milepost is at a junction with I-95 south of Jacksonville. Going counterclockwise, I-295 has junctions with the following major highways:
The 67.79 mile (109.09 km) long Interstate 295 in New Jersey and Delaware is a bypass route from a junction with I-95 south of Wilmington, Delaware to a junction with I-95 north of Trenton, New Jersey. The route runs parallel with the New Jersey Turnpike for most of its course. With the completion of the interchange between I-95 and the Pennsylvania Turnpike in Bristol, Pennsylvania, I-95 will be routed onto the New Jersey Turnpike at Exit 6.
I-295 crosses the Delaware River via the Delaware Memorial Bridge, which is actually two high-arcing suspension bridges carrying traffic in opposite directions. One bridge carries traffic from Delaware to New Jersey, while the other span carries traffic from New Jersey to Delaware.
I-295 will be extended along the remaining I-95 corridor in New Jersey and into Pennsylvania, making it only the second spur interstate to enter three states (after I-275 in Ohio, Kentucky and Indiana), and the third-longest in the country after I-476 in Pennsylvania and I-495 in Massachusetts. The New Jersey Department of Transportation has already renumbered the extension of the New Jersey Turnpike to I-95 on their visitors' map in anticipation of the change.
Even though Pennsylvania is building an intersection between the PA Turnpike and I-95, no such exit exists in New Jersey between I-295 and the PA Turnpike Extension. In other words, I-295 crosses over its parent without an intersection, circles Trenton, then goes back south on the Pennsylvania side to meet I-95, creating a serpentine 113-mile highway.
All of this is because the Somerset Freeway in central New Jersey, which would have made I-95 a continuous highway, has not been built due to environmental reasons.
The 9.10 mile (14.6km) long Interstate 295 in New York is a connector route from a junction with I-95/I-678 in the Bronx (the Cross-Bronx Expressway) across the toll Throgs Neck Bridge to the Grand Central Parkway in Queens. Along the way, there are junctions with I-695 (the Throgs Neck Expressway), the Cross Island Parkway, and I-495 (the Long Island Expressway). In Queens, I-295 is also known as the Clearview Expressway. The highway's southern terminus is Hillside Avenue in the Queens neighborhood of Queens Village.
This new Interstate 295 will be a loop around Fayetteville to relieve congestion on I-95.
The approximately 52 mile (84km) long Interstate 295 in Maine is connector route from a junction with I-95 south of Portland to a junction with I-95 in Gardiner. In January 2004, the routes of I-495, I-95, and I-295 were changed. Previously, I-295 was an 11.02 mile (17.73km) long route through downtown Portland. I-95 was re-routed onto what was I-495 between the junction north of Portland and Gardiner while I-295 was extended to include what had been I-95. I-495 is now an unsigned designation for the short route connecting I-95 with I-295 north of Portland.
The 26.58 mile (42.78km) long Interstate 295 in Rhode Island is a bypass around the west side of Providence. The southern terminus is a junction with I-95 near Warwick, Rhode Island. The northern terminus is a junction with I-95 near Attleboro, Massachusetts.
The 52.56 mile (84.59km) long Interstate 295 in Virginia is an eastern bypass of Richmond and Petersburg. The southern terminus is a junction with I-95 southeast of Petersburg. The northern terminus is a junction with I-95 north of Richmond.
The 8.05 mile (13.0km) long Interstate 295 in Washington D.C. and Maryland is a spur route connecting I-95/I-495 on the Potomac River just outside the district boundaries in Maryland with I-395 in downtown Washington. North and east of I-395, the highway continues in Washington as DC 295, the only current District of Columbia numbered highway. The route continues to Baltimore, though it changes identities several times: I-295, DC 295, the Baltimore-Washington Parkway (no number, a federally owned expressway operated by the National Park Service), and MD 295.
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