Photo taken October 2000. Above, I-195 southbound, approaching Patterson Avenue overpass. Photo taken April 1978. Above, I-195 southbound, approaching Acca Yards Bridge. Photo taken April 1978.
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RMA, VDHT and other governmental and quasi-governmental agencies redoubled their efforts to get an allocation of Interstate mileage sufficient to build the Beltline Expressway as originally planned. They had failed in a previous conference with the U.S. Secretary of Transportation to get a transfer of funds from the authorized I-295, a proposed loop around Richmond, some distance out. Early in 1969, John A. Volpe was the newly appointed Secretary, a three-term Governor of Massachusetts, who had been President Eisenhower's first federal highway administrator in 1956. Virginia's newly elected Governor Linwood Holton headed the delegation from Richmond. RMA backed up the Department, and the key was turned in the deadlock.