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.)

 

Multi-state Projects

Woodrow Wilson Bridge

• Covers a 7.5-mile corridor. It includes four interchanges and two new drawbridges.
• Cost: $2.56 billion
• Completion: 2011

District of Columbia

11th Street Bridge Reconstruction

• Replace and reconfigure the 11th Street Bridges.
• Cost: $377 million
• Completion: 2011

Anacostia Streetcar

• Phase I: From Firth Sterling Avenue and South Capitol to Howard Road and Martin Luther King Jr. Avenue .
• Cost: $21 million
• Completion: 2011

K Street Busway

• Express bus lanes running 1.5 miles between 7th Street ( Mt. Vernon Square ) and Washington Circle, NW.
• Cost: $30.3 million
• Completion: 2008

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

Maryland

Bi-County Transitway

• Commonly called the Purple Line. The 3.75-mile segment slated for construction in the current plan runs between Bethesda and Silver Spring .
• Cost: $371 million
• Completion: 2015
• An eastern portion of the project, between Silver Spring and New Carrollton is included in the CLRP as a study.

Corridor Cities Transitway

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

Intercounty Connector

• A new 6-lane toll road that would run 17 miles between I-270 near Gaithersburg and I-95 near Laurel .
• Cost: $2.4 billion
• Completion: 2010

Virginia

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: $899 million
• Completion: 2010

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*

I-95/395 HOT Lane Study

• Study proposal to build and operate HOV/HOT lanes on 56 miles of I-95/395 between the Virginia state line and the I-95 Massaponax exit in Spotsylvania County
• Cost: $380,000
• Completion: 2007

Springfield Interchange

• One of the largest construction projects in the nation.
• Cost: $700 million
• Completion: 2007

Tri-County Parkway

• A new 4, 6-lane, 13-mile road that would link Manassas to the areas west of Dulles Airport .
• Cost: $68 million.
• Completion: 2015 and 2020*

* Multi-phase project.