Stub ramps at Pennsylvania Avenue, once meant to continue the freeway (as part of I-295) to I-95 and US Route 50 (US 50) northeast of Washington Union Station, now provide access to Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium.

Though the I-695 designation has existed since near the birth of the Interstate Highway System, the route was only signed in late 2011 along with the 11th Street Bridges reconstruction project.

The road comes to an interchange with South Capitol Street, providing access to the Nationals Park baseball stadium.

I-295 was shifted to cross the 11th Street Bridges and then turn east in the median of present I-695 (where the ramps to Robert F. Kennedy Memorial Stadium now lie), continuing north and northwest to end at I-95 and US 50 at their split.

I-695 would be the short section of freeway between I-95 and I-295, and ramps on both sides of the Whitney Young Memorial Bridge would provide a freeway-to-freeway connection between I-695 and DC 295 (via I-295).

Plans for the remaining Interstates in Washington DC were canceled in 1977 after much opposition, and I-295 was later truncated to I-695, with the former I-295 stub to Pennsylvania Avenue renumbered as part of I-695.

That decommissioning was foretold in April 2003, when the DC Office of Planning stated that "the elevated Southeast Freeway and industrial landscape create formidable psychological barriers" between the surrounding neighborhoods.

[4] In December 2009, construction began on replacement of the 11th Street Bridges and their interchange with I-295/DC 295, including ramps that now allow for highway-only travel between DC 295, I-295, and I-395 in all directions.