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.)

1. Dulles Corridor Rapid Transit

  • Covers a 23.1-mile extension of the Metrorail system from Fairfax County to Washington Dulles International Airport.
  • Cost: $5 billion
  • Completion: 2013 and 2016

2. Corridor Cities Transitway

  • Covers a 14-mile corridor from Rockville to Clarksburg, and will be an LRT or BRT line.
  • Cost: $871 million
  • Completion: 2020

3. I-270/US 15 Corridor

  • Widen I-270 from Shady Grove Metro Station to Biggs Ford Rd., possibly including HOV and/or express toll lanes.
  • Cost: $3.4 billion
  • Completion: 2030

4. Intercounty Connector (ICC)

  • Construct a new 18-mile east-west highway in Montgomery and Prince George’s Counties between I-270 and I-95/US 1.
  • Cost: $2.5 billion
  • Completion: 2011

5.Capital Beltway HOT Lanes

  • Widen I-495 to 12 lanes with 4 HOT lanes for 15 miles from VA 193 connecting to I-95/I-395 at the Springfield Interchange.
  • Cost: $1.6 billion
  • Completion: 2013, 2030

6. DC Streetcar: Initial Anacostia Segment

  • Implement streetcars from Firth Sterling Ave. and South Capitol St. to Howard Rd. and Martin Luther King Jr. Ave.
  • Cost: $21 million
  • Completion: 2012

7. South Capitol Street Bridge

  • Covers a 7.5-mile corridor, including four interchanges and two new drawbridges.
  • Cost: $822.5 million
  • Completion: 2015, 2016

8. 11th Street Bridge

  • Upgrade of the existing 11th St. bridges and ramps, connecting the Anacostia and Southeast Freeways.
  • Cost: $475 million
  • Completion: 2013

9. I-95/395 HOV/ Bus/HOT Lanes

  • Reconfigure the HOV lanes between Eads St. and Dumfries to include HOT lanes for 36 miles.
  • Cost: $889 million
  • Completion: 2012

10. Potomac Yards Transitway, Alexandria

  • Buses will run on a combination of dedicated transitway and mixed traffic between Four Mile Run and the Braddock Road Metro Station.
  • Cost: $18.1 million
  • Completion: 2013, 2018

11. Columbia Pike Streetcar 

  • From Skyline to Pentagon City Metro Station.
  • Cost: $135 million.
  • Completion: 2016

12. Purple Line

  • A 16-mile corridor from the Bethesda to New Carrollton Metro Stations.
  • Cost: $1.685 billion
  • Completion: 2020