Gov. Wes Moore lays out a plan for the American Legion Bridge and backs away from a public-private partnership championed by his predecessor.
The Maryland Department of Transportation has applied for a $2.4 billion federal grant that officials said would help the state realize long sought improvements at one of the biggest traffic chokepoints in the Washington region by 2031.
It was the administration’s first public accounting of how it planned to move forward after the state’swithdrew in March, citing uncertainty. The approach addresses the pressure to fix the 60-year-old bridge, a major Beltway chokepoint that Maryland officials have said must be replaced before it becomes structurally unsafe.
The state spent at least $200 million on the preliminary work and environmental approval for the plan. Maryland transportation officials said that work will advance initial implementation of managed lanes at the Bridge and through the I-270 spur. The state also plans to spend another $500,000 to buy the work done by the private consortium picked in 2021 to design, build and operate the toll-lanes.
Like Hogan, Moore is also proposing to build the managed toll-lanes in phases, with the first section connecting to Virginia’s 495 Express Lanes at the American Legion Bridge and continuing on the Beltway to the I-270 West Spur. Moore’s first segment, however, would end at the 270 Spur. A second phase would include I-270 to Interstate 370 stretch. This phasing will also allow for a “fiscally prudent” development of the project, officials said.
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