Route Description
I-195 begins at the entrance to BWI Airport. The eastbound roadway continues southeast into the airport proper, where it features a left exit for the hourly parking garage and then splits into two roadways for arriving and departing flights. After the two roadways—arriving flights on the lower level and departing flights on the upper level—loop between the terminal and the hourly parking garage, the roadways merge. The westbound direction of I-195 heads northwest from the airport after it issues a ramp toward long-term parking and a U-turn toward the terminal. I-195 heads northwest as a four-lane freeway, with a speed limit of 30 miles per hour (48 km/h) between the airport and a partial cloverleaf interchange with MD 170 (Aviation Boulevard), also known as the Airport Loop. The Airport Loop provides access to long-term parking lots, the consolidated rental car facility, hotels, cargo and general aviation facilities, and the BWI Rail Station. The circumferential highway also provides indirect access to I-97 for traffic heading to Annapolis or the Chesapeake Bay Bridge.
I-195's speed limit increases to 60 miles per hour (97 km/h) between the overpass for the BWI Trail and a partial cloverleaf interchange with MD 295 (Baltimore–Washington Parkway), which contains a flyover ramp from southbound MD 295 to southbound I-195. The Interstate parallels the Amtrak Northeast Corridor and MARC's Penn Line before elevating onto a viaduct to cross the railroad tracks and the Patapsco River, where the freeway passes from Anne Arundel County to Baltimore County. I-195 crosses over I-895 (Harbor Tunnel Thruway) with no access before its four-ramp partial cloverleaf interchange with US 1 (Washington Boulevard). The highway continues northwest over CSX's Baltimore Terminal Subdivision and meets I-95 at a partial cloverleaf interchange 2 miles (3.2 km) southwest of the I-95–I-695 junction; the interchange features flyovers from northbound I-95 to northbound I-195 and from southbound I-95 to southbound I-195. The highway officially ends at the northern edge of the interchange. The speed limit drops to 50 miles per hour (80 km/h) as the freeway continues as MD 166 under the Selford Road overpass. The highway has a partial interchange for UMBC Boulevard, which leads to the UMBC campus, before ending next to a park and ride facility at Rolling Road, on which MD 166 continues north toward Catonsville.
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