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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MD has signed an agreement with Transurban. That agreement is currently being litigated because other companies wanted to bid, but it’s unlikely that will be successful. It will be very hard for Maryland to exit this agreement and there is no alternative plan in place to rebuild the bridge so it will happen eventually. However in typical Maryland fashion it will be decades too late. [/quote]

Whatever Transurban has a contract to do, they're not going to do it. As you may have heard, Maryland will have a new governor and 2/3 of a new Board of Public Works next month. The clock ran out on Larry Hogan's pet plan.[/quote]

So what is YOUR answer then to the chokehold there?[/quote]

Same as Elrich and the MoCo leadership -- do nothing.

Actually, Elrich did have a suggestion on how to relieve beltway congestion -- he suggested a campaign to tell people about taking the ICC as an alternative. I'm not making this up. As if people don't have GPS systems that can't already tell them to take it if it's faster.[/quote]

[b]There are many options between Hogans plan and do nothing.[/quote][/b]

Do enlighten us[/quote]

Use State/Federal funding rather than a PPP.    Do not focus on only expanding the already widest parts of 270.  Consider 1 or 2 reversal lanes.[/quote]

There are not enough funds to pay for this.  It would require a big MD outlay.  What would be a plan is to give VA half of the Potomac and get them to pay half.  VA would.[/quote]

Va would impose a toll to replace the bridge and a separate toll for the construction of new lanes. That’s the MO for new infrastructure in NoVa. A toll makes the most sense for Md because the cost will be shared by Va commuters and people traveling through the region to get to other states. [/quote]

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