These are actually express lanes that will be built on I-66. If you don’t want to pay the toll, you can take the free lanes. I have no idea whether there is a non-compete agreement in this PPP.
Except it appears that they are taking one of the free lanes away in each direction from route 50 out.
“These are actually express lanes that will be built on I-66. If you don’t want to pay the toll, you can take the free lanes. I have no idea whether there is a non-compete agreement in this PPP.”
Thanks Tol, I was struggling to make sense of the article, particularly the part about them rebuilding 3 general purpose lanes in each direction without tolling them. Regarding non-compete, as long as they own the free lanes (and thus can keep them from expanding), they effectively have the monopoly they need to force traffic onto their toll lanes.
Interesting approach, but should be quite rewarding for them.