Editing Interstate 695 (Maryland) (section)

==== Windlass and Patapsco freeways ====
From the junction with I-95, the Baltimore Beltway was planned to extend southeast along the Back River Neck peninsula, turning south to cross the Back River near the [[Essex Skypark]] airport, then heading towards the present Outer Harbor Crossing. Part of this alignment was completed as I-695 to the south of US&nbsp;40 in 1972, then as MD&nbsp;702 (Southeast Freeway), extending to MD&nbsp;150 by 1975.<ref name="bmetro"/><ref name="exxon1975">{{cite map|publisher=[[Exxon]]|title= Delaware, Maryland, Virginia, West Virginia |year=1975 |cartography=[[General Drafting]]}}</ref> However, the section of the Baltimore Beltway between south of MD&nbsp;150 to west of the Back River crossing was not built, requiring it be rerouted on portions of two freeways not originally planned to be part of it.

The first was the Windlass Freeway ([[Maryland Route 149|MD&nbsp;149]]), a route planned to run from I-95 at Moravia Road northeast to [[Chase, Maryland|Chase]], paralleling US&nbsp;40 to the south.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://plato.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/stagser/s1500/s1529/cfm/dsp_unit.cfm?county=ba&qualifier=C&series=2140&unit=2560|title=Right of Way 38932, Windlass Freeway, Patapsco Freeway to Southeast Freeway|date=August 15, 1974|publisher=Baltimore County Circuit Court|access-date=June 11, 2009|archive-date=July 25, 2011|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110725182212/http://plato.mdarchives.state.md.us/msa/stagser/s1500/s1529/cfm/dsp_unit.cfm?county=ba&qualifier=C&series=2140&unit=2560|url-status=dead}}</ref> The only portion of the Windlass Fwy constructed is the section of I-695 that diverges southwest from the [[directional T interchange]] with MD&nbsp;702 to a point less than {{One2a|{{convert|1|mi|km|spell=in}}}} to the southwest where I-695 makes a sharp turn from west to south. From here, the Windlass Freeway would have continued to its southerly terminus at I-95. This sharp turn is half of what would have been another directional T interchange (which was to have become exit 37), marking the northern terminus of the Patapsco Freeway, the other freeway incorporated into the Baltimore Beltway. 

The Patapsco Freeway was planned to connect the Windlass Freeway to the originally-planned Baltimore Beltway. Completed in 1973, the planned Patapsco Freeway is now part of I-695. The wide median in I-695 south of exit&nbsp;41 (Cove Road) is where the unbuilt beltway would have intersected the Patapsco Freeway after crossing Back River to the east, making this the southern terminus of the Patapsco Freeway. Continuing southeast, I-695 rejoins the original alignment of the beltway.<ref name="bmetro"/>

[[File:2020-08-09 15 39 58 View east along Interstate 695 (Baltimore Beltway) as it passes over Maryland State Route 710 (East Ordnance Road) on the edge of Brooklyn Park and Glen Burnie in Anne Arundel County, Maryland.jpg|thumb|left|I-695 eastbound as it passes over MD&nbsp;710 in Brooklyn Park]]
[[Ramp stub]]s for the planned Windlass Freeway are present at the proposed west end at I-95 and Moravia Road,<ref>{{Google maps|access-date=January 15, 2023|url=https://www.google.com/maps/place/Baltimore,+MD/@39.304948,-76.529689,16z/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x89c803aed6f483b7:0x44896a84223e758!8m2!3d39.2903848!4d-76.6121893!16zL20vMDk0anY?hl=en|title=I-95/Moravia Road interchange}}</ref> and, at the present west end at the Southeast Freeway (MD&nbsp;702), the partially built junction with the proposed Windlass Freeway.<ref>{{Google maps|url=https://www.google.com/maps/place/Baltimore,+MD/@39.324164,-76.480583,17z/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x89c803aed6f483b7:0x44896a84223e758!8m2!3d39.2903848!4d-76.6121893!16zL20vMDk0anY?hl=en|title=I-695/MD 702 interchange|access-date=January 15, 2023}}</ref><ref name="AAA">[[American Automobile Association]], Baltimore Triptik insert, 1976 (shows the proposed extensions at each end)</ref> The planned junction of the Windlass and Patapsco freeways, now the point where I-695 makes a sharp turn from west to south, just to the north of where it crosses the Back River, was originally built with provisions for extending the Windlass Freeway to I-95,<ref name=AAA/> but this has since been reconfigured as a sharp curve on I-695.<ref>{{Google maps|access-date=January 15, 2023|url=https://www.google.com/maps/place/Baltimore,+MD/@39.312801,-76.501794,16z/data=!3m1!1e3!4m6!3m5!1s0x89c803aed6f483b7:0x44896a84223e758!8m2!3d39.2903848!4d-76.6121893!16zL20vMDk0anY?hl=en|title=Transition between the Windlass Freeway and Patapsco Freeway}}</ref>