PING.
How in the Sam Hell did they build highways in my fathers day without double taxing everyone?
This is getting very old.
If the government in our parents and grandparents day had acted like the government does today, there would have been very few highways.
This “Lexus Lane” project is a “private-public” project. Plan call for the construction to be privately built using the eminent domain authority of the government. Toll charged will go to the private contract for 15+ years. Pouring more concrete is not the answer. I-270 was intended to be a truck route from DC to Breezewood, PA to link up with the PA Turnpike. The road was built over farm land and was two lanes in each direction. Today the farms are gone replaced by medium to high density homes and rush hour traffic sucks.
The question is, what do all these people do in the DC area? The vast majority work either for the Federal Government or companies that support the bloated agencies.
My solution to the traffic problem. Reduce the size of the government and relocate the remaining personnel to flyover country.
There’s no room to effectively widen these roads.
I’m guessing they can attach them to the toll lanes on the Virginia side. If the can add a new bridge for those 4 lines, it will help everybody by moving rich people out of the regular lanes.