Word: beltway
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...Pook's Hill, Washington's new four-lane Capital Beltway, which circles the metropolitan area, intersects the six-lane Route 355 and the four-lane Route 240; and the designers have ingeniously arranged it so that all three superhighways come together at once in a magnificent swirl of concrete spaghetti. Tourists tend to think their frustration is their own fault; it is all but inconceivable to the average mind that on such an elaborate interlacement of roads, eastbound traffic on the beltway cannot go north on Route 355; westbound beltway traffic cannot go south on Route 355; southbound...
Local residents have discovered that the only way to turn off the beltway onto Route 355 is by heading in the opposite direction and making a U-turn into the oncoming traffic. Not only is this uncommonly hazardous, but during rush hours it chokes off one traffic lane with cars waiting (drivers fuming) to make the turn...