The Maryland Department of Transportation announced that they will not seek federal approval for their proposed toll lane expansion on I-270 and I-495 until Gov. Hogan leaves office.
The Maryland Department of Transportation announced that they will not seek federal approval for their proposed toll lane expansion on I-270 and I-495 until Gov. Hogan leaves office in order to allow their contractor time to complete planning, design and financing for the project.
This decisions likely leaves the fate of the project in the hands of the incoming Department of Public Works, lead by Governor-elect Wes Moore, Comptroller-elect Brooke Lierman, and Treasurer Dereck Davis.
The highway expansion project made U.S. PIRG’s 2018 Highway Boondoggles list for the interstate widening northwest of Washington, D.C. The project, originally packaged as the “Traffic Relief Plan,” has seen significant opposition, including legal challenges, that have resulted in delays and downsizing of the proposal’s scope.
It’s time to cancel the highway widening once and for all and instead use federal funding from the bipartisan infrastructure law to clear their highway repair backlogs and invest in public transportation.
America spends tens of billions of dollars each year on highway expansion projects that do little to address congestion, create other problems for our communities, and absorb scarce resources that could be used to meet other, more pressing transportation needs.
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