You continue to ignore Maryland's failures to help build at least one outer bypass.
You continue to ignore Virginia's failures to construct any improvements to the general purpose lanes south of Woodbridge since the 1980s to mitigate the lack of a bypass.
Not ignoring it, just saying that it wouldn't have to be a hyper-freeway if Maryland had done what they should have done.
Most traffic as I mentioned above is coming from / to Northern Virginia / Southern Maryland, and will have find no benefits of a bypass.
There is plenty of thru traffic on I-95, as around Ladysmith and Carmel Church there is very little local traffic on I-95 and the AADT doesn't drop below 100,000 AADT.
Thru traffic in this case is anything passing the Richmond-Baltimore, Richmond-Annapolis, Richmond-Frederick cordon lines. Doesn't have to be Maine to Florida.
the main route in/out needs to be expanded into a megafreeway with a 3+3 carriageway to accommodate that regional movement.
Can't be done as pointed out many times, I-95 is fully built out in the Newington / Springfield area and there is no room for 12 GP lanes and 3 HOT lanes on 5 separate roadways.
I am complaining that Maryland didn't build at least one back when was much easier to afford.
You can complain all day long about the past, but that's behind us.
No it is not "behind us," Maryland needs to be planning now, and there needs to be a joint EIS/location study to study alternates and determine projected traffic volumes for the several routes.
Maryland needs to start this study NOW.
We need to look towards the future, and right now, the most feasible option to relieving congestion and benefiting the most amount of people would be a 3+3 setup.
Baloney, any way you slice it.
It doesn't matter what it's funding, it's just the amount, the cost it's funding - which is $2 billion. An I-95 expansion that costs $5 - $6 billion could be funded in a similar manner generally, if it was pursued. You've mentioned in the past that the special tax district and fees increased funding I-81 should be extended in the future for a Phase 2 to widen all 325 miles of I-81 to 6 lanes. You're talking at least $10 billion there. The same idea here with I-95.
It won't be fundable without least 50% bond funding.
I-81 with its limited work with $2.2 billion will stretch to about 2032 with only pay-go.
Two scheduling options presented
- Existing revenue stream (pay-go) -- 48 out of 64 projects completed by 2028
- Bonding/TIFIA option -- 60 out of 64 projects completed by 2028
http://www.ctb.virginia.gov/resources/2019/oct/pres/2.i_81.pdfI wish that money grew on trees but unfortunately it doesn't!