Selected Project Highlights

The media and public interest groups have focused attention on a number of key projects that are included in the current plan. Some of these projects are described below. (Other pages of the site contain maps and full listings of the major highway, transit and high-occupancy vehicle (HOV) improvements, and studies in the plan.)

District of Columbia

1. 11th Street Bridge Reconstruction

  • Upgrade of the existing 11th Street bridges and ramps, connecting the Anacostia and Southeast Freeways
  • Cost: $645 million
  • Completion: 2011

2. South Capitol Street Corridor with Frederick Douglass Memorial Bridge Improvements

  • Convert South Capitol Street from an urban highway to a grand six-lane boulevard. Construct a newly aligned, six-lane Frederick Douglas Bridge
  • Cost: $625 million
  • Completion: 2015
  • Covers a 7.5-mile corridor, including four interchanges and two new drawbridges.

Maryland

3. Purple Line

  • A) Covers a 3.75-mile corridor from the Bethesda to Silver Spring Metro Stations
  • Cost: $371 million
  • Completion: 2015
  • B) A continuation from Silver Spring to New Carrollton is in the plan as a study

4. Corridor Cities Transitway

  • A light rail or bus rapid transit line roughly following the I-270 corridor north 13.5 miles from Shady Grove to COMSAT
  • Cost: $871 million
  • Completion: 2012 and 2020*

5. Intercounty Connector

  • A new 6-lane toll road that would run 17 miles between I-270 near Gaithersburg and I-95 near Laurel
  • Cost: $2.5 billion
  • Completion: 2012

Virginia

6. Beltway HOT Lanes

  • Two new lanes running in each direction from the Springfield Interchange to Georgetown Pike
  • Free for HOV-3+, open to other vehicles paying tolls.
  • Financing will be arranged by a private contractor
  • Cost: $1.5 billion
  • Completion 2013

7. Dulles Corridor Rapid Transit

  • A 23.1-mile extension of Metrorail to Dulles Airport and into Loudoun County
  • Cost: $3.7 billion
  • Completion: 2011 and 2015*

8. I-95/395 HOT Lanes

  • Reconfigure the HOV lanes between Eads Street and Dumfries to include HOT lanes
  • Cost: $882 million
  • Completion: 2010

* Multi-phase project.