Talk:Baltimore-Washington Parkway

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Contents 1 Length 2 Route 1 3 Hon Sign? 4 The Park

[edit] Length

[1]

• DC: unknown - if it actually does enter; the NBI lists those bridges - including over the Anacostia River - as "state highway agency"; [2] says it begins at the line
• Prince George's County: 0.20 mi on US 50 (SHA maintained and called John Hanson Highway by them), 12.36 mi as federal parkway
• Anne Arundel County: 6.20 mi as federal parkway (to just south of MD 175), 8.90 mi as MD 295
• Baltimore County: 1.42 mi
• Baltimore City: 3.60 mi [3]
• total 32.52 mi [4]

—The preceding unsigned comment was added by SPUI (talk • contribs) 20:59, 9 June 2006 (UTC).

[edit] Route 1

I changed the link from U.S. Route 1 (Maryland) to U.S. Route 1 because it redirected there anyway. Then changed the link Baltimore-Washington Boulevard to U.S. Route 1 in Maryland because those are the same roads (I hope I'm not wrong.) However, the article on U.S. Route 1 in Maryland needs to indicate that.

Enrique Vargas 22:43, 8 November 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Hon Sign?

Perhaps a mention of the "notorious" alteration of the welcome sign at the northern end of the parkway? http://www.mail-archive.com/chat@charlesvillage.info/msg01197.html —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 64.124.138.29 (talk) 23:54, 7 December 2006 (UTC)

Wikipedia's greatest feature is that we can add virtually any and/or all information that there is for a given topic. While I do not believe that this is notable, I wouldn't be against its addition. Road articles tend to be quite bland -- it's sometimes nice to have some trivia so long as it doesn't clutter the article. --Thisisbossi 04:07, 29 December 2006 (UTC)

[edit] The Park

When the NSA was moved to Fort George G. Meade in the 1950s (to protect against a nuclear detonation in downtown Washington), existing roads were inadequate to handle the traffic from a then Washington-based workforce. The B-W Parkway was built primarily to service the agency, which is why the Federal Government, and not the State of Maryland, built the Parkway to a point just beyond the NSA exit.

I think the above statement is wrong. NSA moved to Fort Meade in 1957, three years after the Parkway was finished in 1954. Unless there was a plan all along to do it after the Parkway was finished, I doubt that the Parkway was built explicitly for the NSA. Still, I have moved the paragraph here to elicit comments on this topic. -TheOneKEA