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[quote=Anonymous]From today's Washington Post

[b]As the American Legion Bridge turns 60, its traffic woes draw scrutiny
[/b]Maryland officials are debating how to best relieve traffic congestion at the aging American Legion Bridge, one of the Beltway’s worst bottlenecks
[url]https://www.washingtonpost.com/transportation/2022/12/29/american-legion-bridge-traffic/[/url]

Some notes:
From MD's new Governor Moore
[i]“The governor-elect has been clear on the core priority to improve congestion in the region, including upgrading the aging American Legion Bridge,” Moore spokesman Carter Elliott IV said in a Dec. 22 statement.[/i]

MoCo executive Erlich wants it fixed and expanded but with federal highway funds, not tolls
[i]Montgomery County Executive Marc Elrich (D), a vocal critic of Hogan’s plan, said he supports expanding the bridge and western part of the Beltway. However, he said, the work should be paid for with federal infrastructure funding, rather than private financing that would require charging tolls.[/i]

Alternatives? Nope.
[i]AAA, some Washington-area business leaders and local officials continued to push for a second crossing upstream throughout the 1990s. The idea of a “techway” gained some traction in 2000, when then-Rep. Frank R. Wolf (R-Va.) clinched $2 million for a federal study....
But Wolf soon canceled the study amid fierce opposition, ignited after both advocates and opponents drew lines on maps showing where a new bridge might cross. The biggest hurdle: Any second crossing would need to connect to a new highway. That highway probably would cut through some of the region’s wealthiest neighborhoods, with multimillion dollar homes and a bucolic feel, on both sides of the Potomac. The Montgomery council also objected to any road through the county’s western agricultural preserve.
“I saw the maps and thought, ‘There goes the future of that project,’ ” Anderson (of AAA) recalled. “Whose mansions were you going to tear down — in Great Falls, Virginia, or Potomac, Maryland? The answer was neither.”
The idea hasn’t been seriously considered since.[/i]
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