Southeast Freeway (Washington, D.C.)

Interstate 695 (I-695), also known as the Southeast Freeway, is a two-mile-long (3.2 km) auxiliary Interstate Highway in Washington, D.C. It travels from an interchange with I-395 south of the US Capitol building east then south across the 11th Street Bridges to an interchange with I-295 and District of Columbia Route 295 (DC 295) in Anacostia. Access also exists from eastbound I-695 to Pennsylvania Avenue at Barney Circle, just northwest of the John Philip Sousa Bridge. Stub ramps at Pennsylvania Avenue, once meant to continue the freeway (as part of I-295) to I-95 and US Route 50 (US 50) northeast of Washington Union Station, provided access to Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium until September 2019 when it was demolished. Though the I-695 designation has existed since near the birth of the Interstate Highway System, the route was only signed in late 2011 along with the 11th Street Bridges reconstruction project. The route number is planned to be decommissioned in favor of an extension of the I-395 designation, but the resigning work is yet to commence as of September 2025.