 The other was the New York Avenue Industrial Freeway, four northbound and five southbound lanes of limited-access highway running along New York Avenue NE from the proposed junction with I-395 at Florida Avenue NE and running to the District-Maryland line.New bridges across the Potomac River (such as the proposed Three Sisters Bridge) would feed traffic into the system.The Whitehurst Freeway portion of the Middle Loop was first proposed in 1941.