No sooner do they complete the $2B "Road To Nowhere" [also known as the ICC], which CANNOT pay for itself in tolls [so they jack the tolls on ALL other bridges and tolls to pay for it] ...
NOW, they want to spend $5B on widening the Beltway ???
Don't I know it. Driving home to PA yesterday, I got off 95 to avoid the $8 toll for the Tydings Bridge...and paid $6 for the Hatem Bridge. Governmental greed is a million times worse than "corporate greed" because you can't avoid government.
The thing about the Beltway is....ANYWHERE ELSE THEY WOULD BE PUSHING SOME NEW "LIGHT RAIL" SCHEME. But here, in DC, is where the bureaucrats work...and they MUST be allowed to drive to work, unlike the peasants in the rest of the country.