Posted on 01/02/2018 7:01:01 AM PST by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
WASHINGTON — With construction on new toll lanes ramping up this year on Interstate 66 between Gainesville and the Beltway, Virginia’s Commonwealth Transportation Board is due to approve a number of projects next week that will be paid for by the toll lane operators.
After a public hearing Thursday, the board is due to vote Jan. 10 on how to spend $496 million of a $579 million payment that Express Mobility Partners gave the state as part of the construction agreement.
An additional $79 million is due to go toward oversight of the project, including public outreach, and there is some separate ongoing funding planned to support some transit options.
The lanes outside the Beltway, due to open in 2022, will operate like the 495 Express Lanes on the Beltway with two toll lanes each way, next to three regular lanes and a shoulder.
The construction also includes new park and ride facilities.
Each of the projects funded through this payment hopes to benefit some of the drivers who will be paying tolls in the lanes.
“There is regional consensus that these are projects that need to be funded to make this project work better for the people of Northern Virginia, which is the whole point of the concession payment,” said Commonwealth Transportation Board Northern Virginia District Member Mary Hynes last month.
The recommended projects (with the planned amount of funding from this payment) are:
(Excerpt) Read more at wtop.com ...
I guess back to the drivers isn’t an option.
Social Justice causes naturally! George Soros needs more money to hire more incompetents to run state governments.
Maybe towards better snow plowing?
Definitely into public outreach and to public leaders’ pockets.
Well, none of the toll money should go to “light rail” projects. Funds from light rail riders never go to projects that will be used by automobile/truck drivers...why should funds directly or indirectly from automobile drivers go to benefit light rail riders?
Yep, interstate highway tolls should not be spent on rail, bus or trails.
Spend it on highway maintenance and highway improvements.
Like everything else, it should go to the Clinton Foundation for “charity”.
TOLL IS RENT
The road is done built.
The toll remains.
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