Widen it to five lanes and extend the Metro down on the center median. I spent 19 years in DC area and all they do is bandaids, never really fixing the problem. I-66 is another example. What a disaster.
Traffic in northern Virginia is among the worst in the nation, from what I’ve heard.
I have no answers, just happy that I don’t have to cope with such rush hour traffic .
I’m in Occoquan right now. I know that bottleneck very well.
Unfortunately, by the time they get this done, there will just be more traffic and the problem will stay the same until we can finally get those one passenger drones for everybody.
With the HOT/Carpool lanes in the median of I-95 taking up so much space if the HOT lanes were eliminated I-95 could have been widened to at least 5 lanes each way.
Dwight Eisenhower would be very surprised to see how snarled the Interstate Highway system has become, especially on the Eastern Seaboard. I’m old enough to remember when Route 128 in Boston area (part of I-95) was called the “road to nowhere.” Now it is a parking lot about 8 hours a day. Same in Connecticut, especially from New Haven on south to NYC.
I-95 in the Boston area is a nightmare——they even allow the breakdown lane to be used during AM and PM rush hours-——delightful if you really NEED the breakdown lane.
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Cut the number parasitic federal employees instead of building more roads.
I have a simple fix. Cut the federal government bureaucracy in half.
This should reduce the traffic load substantially making any road widening unnecessary.
In the long run, it might even return northern Virginia back to Virginia (in terms of voting).
“...The National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board is conducting an air quality analysis to see how the project will affect emissions. All projects under review must not negatively affect air quality, and Anderson hopes that the results will show reduced emissions....”
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Let’s see ... total emissions produced by a car or truck spending 25 minutes, repeatedly stopping and then speeding up in a bottle necked stretch of an interstate COMPARED TO total emissions produced by that same car or truck zipping through, at continuos speed, spending only 5 or ten minutes in the same stretch of interstate. And they need a LONG time consuming and expensive “air quality analysis” to tell them the answer? I guess they need a reason to keep the well-paid bureaucrats and contractors on their payrolls.
It;s no wonder road construction projects take so many years and are so expensive to complete.