page_title: Interstate 695 (Massachusetts)
section_title: Re-use of rights-of-way
hierarchical_section_title: Interstate 695 (Massachusetts) / Re-use of rights-of-way
caption_attribution_description: English: Melnea Cass Boulevard at Washington St, Roxbury Massachusetts
context_page_description: The Inner Belt in Boston was a planned six-lane, limited-access highway that would have run through parts of Boston, Brookline, Cambridge, and Somerville.
context_section_description: With the cancellation of the "Southwest Corridor" route for I-95, and the resultant alternate usage of much of that right-of-way for a significant length of the relocated southwest section of the MBTA Orange Line subway's above-ground run, Route 128 between I-95 South and I-95 North was made part of the Interstate system as I-95.  The right-of-way for the I-695 portion of the beltway in Roxbury had already been cleared and now contains an arterial road, Melnea Cass Boulevard.  The former Southwest Corridor portion of the right of way was converted into Southwest Corridor Park and the new route for the new depressed southern section of Boston's Orange Line subway, from the Tufts Medical Center subway station south-westwards. The older elevated Orange line right of way along Washington Street was subsequently torn down by 1987, and eventually replaced by the Silver Line rapid bus service.
  Remnants of the Inner Belt were visible for many years on Interstate 93 at what is now the Storrow Drive Connector interchange (Exit 26 southbound) in Somerville (which would have been the northern terminus of I-695) and at the Massachusetts Avenue interchange in Boston (which would have been the Route 3/I-95 junction at the southern terminus of the beltway). Some, but not all, of these remnants have been demolished as part of the Big Dig; in particular, the Leverett Connector uses the northern pair of ramps in Somerville and had to be built around the southern pair of ramps. A still-extant, but barricaded spur just north of the new Zakim Bridge on both levels of I-93 North was intended to connect to the Inner Belt.
  An industrial park in Somerville, built on the remnants of the B&M's Yard 8, near the intended northern terminus of the highway is built around a street known as "Inner Belt Road".
caption: Melnea Cass Boulevard in Roxbury, built along the right-of-way cleared, but never used, for I-695
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