- published: 08 Jun 2015
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Interstate 95 (I-95) is the main highway on the East Coast of the United States, running parallel to the Atlantic Ocean from Maine to Florida and serving some of the most populated urban areas in the country, including Boston, Providence, New Haven, New York City, Newark, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Washington, D.C., Richmond, Savannah, Jacksonville and Miami. It is the longest north–south route of the Interstate Highway System, and supersedes older U.S. Highways, mainly U.S. Route 1. The oldest sections of I-95, including several toll roads, predate the Interstate System; the route has yet to be completed in the Pennsylvania–New Jersey area. Construction of the missing connection is scheduled to be completed by the 2010s (tentatively 2018).
I-95's two pieces total 1,925 mi (3,098 km). The southern terminus of I-95 is at U.S. Route 1 in southern Miami, Florida. The highway heads north along the Atlantic through Jacksonville, Florida to Savannah, Georgia, and then takes a slightly more inland route through South Carolina and North Carolina to Richmond, Virginia. From Richmond past Washington, D.C. to Baltimore, Maryland, I-95 follows the fall line, where the Atlantic Coastal Plain meets the Appalachian Piedmont. The highway continues northeast through Wilmington, Delaware and Philadelphia, after which traffic must use other roads to continue towards Newark, New Jersey until the completion of the Pennsylvania Turnpike/Interstate 95 Interchange Project (planned for 2017). I-95 crosses the George Washington Bridge into New York City, and then passes through New Haven, Connecticut and Providence, Rhode Island, around Boston, Massachusetts, and through Portsmouth, New Hampshire and Portland, Maine on its way to U.S. Route 2 and the Houlton/Woodstock Border Crossing to the short New Brunswick Route 95, which connects to the Trans-Canada Highway.
I just bought a ticket for the journey of my life
I gotta do this thing so I can feel all right
Oh not me again, not me again
Someone points a gun up to my head but I'm alone
I want to run away but I can't let it go
Oh not me again, not me again
Drove down the I'95 with a cigarette in my hand
2000 reasons that I don't understand
The Philly sun is shining in my eyes
I start believing when I hear that voice inside
"Hey there man, do you wanna be happy, do you wanna be
free?"
Blessed be the angry for angry they will be
I gotta change this thing that screams inside of me
Oh not me again, not me again
Drove down the I'95 with smile across my face
I see the flowers bloom I see the human race
I got my power back from talking to my friend
60 miles of reason and I hear that voice again
"Hey there man, do you wanna be happy, do you wanna be
free?"
Drove down the I'95 with the whole world in my hand
Got all the things I need to finally understand
Still on a journey that I started long ago
The car is round the corner but the wheels have just come
home.
Whats the point of hanging on to an image of yourself?
I question my redemption and I knew it had to go