Integrated Statewide Network ’s Statewide of Optional Express Toll Lanes Express Toll Lanes Network Initiative Vision Maryland’s Statewide Express Toll Lanes (ETLs) Network Initiative will: • Provide a new type of optional transportation service with reliable, relatively free-fl owing travel for time-sensitive trips; • Provide a sustainable solution and long-term • Create infrastructure for regional express bus congestion relief; and service in the busiest commuting routes; • Make billions of dollars of congestion relief • Provide increased roadway capacity in the affordable decades sooner than traditional most severely congested transportation corridors; approaches would allow.

Objectives

• Offer reliable and predictable travel operational strategies that maximize times and choices by providing relatively sustainable transit and motorist movements A network of optional express toll free-fl owing travel options for transit riders and on a system-wide basis and that also would lanes will provide a cost-effective automobile occupants in the near term, not connect seamlessly to neighboring jurisdictions way for Maryland to manage way off in the future, while maintaining free in the region. congestion, increase roadway lanes for less time-sensitive trips. • Capture air quality and other capacity, create an expanded • Promote transit solutions by providing the environmental benefi ts by reducing vehicle regional transit system, infrastructure for a reliable system of express emissions and lessening the need for future bus routes as well as fi nancial incentives (e.g., highway widening and associated impacts and provide an option for splitting automobile operation costs, parking, on residences, businesses, and the natural relatively free-fl owing and tolls) to carpool and vanpool. environment. highway travel – and to • Build sustainable highway capacity • Improve incidence response times by do so decades sooner sooner than otherwise feasible by reducing congestion and providing adjacent than otherwise providing a new revenue source in the form of routing for emergency vehicles. feasible. tolls and using pricing techniques to manage • Take advantage of technological demand. (Revenue would fi rst be used for advances, including collecting tolls 100% maintenance and operation costs on the new electronically, without tollbooths or waits lanes with excess revenue used for capital costs – and to adjust tolls on a real-time basis to to build and maintain the network.) manage traffi c fl ow. • Develop an integrated highway system that optimizes effi ciency and maximizes fl exibility by pursuing construction and Statewide Express Toll Lanes Network Winter 2005 140 FREDERICK 97 LEGEND Express toll lanes (ETLs) will be considered where Example of express toll lanes operational in Minnesota. 26 they can help ease the impact of congestion Express Toll Lane Facilities/Corridors in Design by making transportation improvements 6 1 I-95 from I-895 to north of MD 43 (10 miles) (Construction - late 2006) affordable decades sooner. The primary focus FREDERICK 1 95 of the Statewide Express Toll Lanes Network 695 2 Intercounty Connector (Entire Length) Initiative is to add new lanes to some of 26 7 40 Maryland’s most severely congested controlled 43 Express Toll Lane Facilities/Corridors in Project Planning 70 32 access highways such as Interstates. 140 83 1 3 I-95/ I-495 () – Entire Maryland portion (42.2 miles) Express toll lanes are actively under consideration 4 I-270 from I-370 to I-70 (23 mile section) Working in concert with Governor Ehrlich’s 15 BALTIMORE 5 MD 5 from I-495 to US 301 (9.4 miles) in the Baltimore and Washington regions, Vision for a More Mobile Maryland, 70 270 27 97 702 KENT 301 including for I-95, I-270, I-495/I-95, and MD 5 development of an Express Toll Lanes Network 40 6 I-95 from north of MD 43 to MD 543 (10 miles) 40 395 (see map for details on the status of plans for will help ease the burden of congestion in the HOWARD 213 individual ETL facilities). State’s most traveled corridors. 4 95 Express Toll Lane Facilities/Corridors Under Feasibility Study 100 895 7 I-695 from I-95N to I-97 10 29 95 695 8 I-270 from I-495 to I-370 32 295 97 Example of express toll lanes on I-15 MONTGOMERY 10 Proposed Regional Variable Priced Lanes Scenario, 2030 in San Diego, California. for the TPB Regional Mobility and Accessibility Study 11 100 GAITHERSBURG 370 2 9 The entire Capital Beltway (I-495/I-95) 14 100 QUEEN 8 ANNE 10 I-270 from I-70 to the Capital Beltway (I-495) 7 97 1 32 11 I-95 from the Capital Beltway (I-495) to the Baltimore Beltway (I-695) ROCKVILLE ANNE'S12 US 50 from the to I-395 29 13 270 295 MD 5 from I-495 to US 301 95 301 25 14 Intercounty Connector (Entire Length) 28 9 SILVER COLLEGE 97 15 I-295 from Capital Beltway to Anacostia Freeway SPRING PARK BOWIE 213 16 Anacostia Freeway/KenilworthCAROLINE Avenue from I-295 to Route 50 15 ARUNDEL301 50 7 ANNAPOLIS 301 17 I-95 from Caroline/Spotsylvania County Line to Capital Beltway (I-495/I-95) 12 50 23 WASHINGTON 50 18 I-395 from the Capital Beltway (I-495/I-95) to I-295 24 16 19 MD 4 from US 301 to I-495 29 D.C. 1 50 26 30 95 20 MD 210 from MD 228 to I-495 35 295 50 21 US 301 from the Nice Bridge to US 50 (includes the proposed Waldorf Bypass) Optional Express Toll Lanes 66 34 495 28 22 I-66 from Warren/Fauquier County Line, over the Theodore Roosevelt Bridge, 50 31 E 66 32 33 to Rock Creek Parkway to Independence Avenue, to , 395 • Express toll lanes will use added • Tolls will be collected 100 percent C SW to SE/SW Freeway 495 18 4 TALBOT lanes (in some instances, in electronically at highway speeds. 28 3 N19 23 Dulles Toll Road (VA 267) from VA 28 to I-66 combination with creating new 22 495 95 I MAP AREA EASTON 24 VA 28 from I-66 to VA 7 • Relatively free-fl owing conditions 5 options with converted lanes) to R 301 25 VA 7 from US Route 15 to the Dulles Toll Road will be maintained by varying toll 20 major highways such as Interstates. 27 5 26 from I-66 to VA 7 rates based on demand – either P 27 Franconia-Springfield Parkway from Sydenstricker Road to Frontier Drive • Express toll lanes will give motorists by time of day or actual traffi c 17 13 28 Braddock Road from Burke Lake Road to I-95 the option of paying a fee to drive conditions – increasing when 1 in separate, relatively free-fl owing the lanes are relatively full and 29 Chain Bridge highway lanes whenever they decreasing when the lanes have 4 30 Key Bridge CA need it most. extra capacity. 228 31 Memorial Bridge 95 210 50 32 Bridge (Frederick Douglass Bridge) • Options will be preserved for toll- 33 Bridge (John Phillip Sousa Bridge) free travel in general purpose lanes LVE 34 Bridge (Whitney Young Memorial Bridge) for less time-sensitive trips. 21 CAMBRIDGE 35 Bridge

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