Really? Really? Why does someone in VA Beach need to take an average of 30+ trips a year to the D.C. area for 10 years?
I could easily ask you the same questions, somebody in Richmond taking 30+ trips thru the area annually, but have I?
First off, I've had to travel up to the Northern Virginia region significantly more in the past couple of years due to family and personal reasons, but have gone up there at least a few times per year prior to that. As of now, I won't be going up there nearly as often, but there's still the occasional here and there. Secondly, at least 4 of my trips thru there this year have been thru travel to the northwest.
I've always utilized the general purpose lanes leaving the area, with the exception of the HO/T lanes when there were more than 2 people in the car which then it was free.
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.
What would the NYC area look like if New Jersey never bothered to build the GSP up to NY I-287, and never built their portions of I-287?
What would Philadelphia and SE PA look like if Delaware and New Jersey didn't proactively build the bridge and NJTP, an Interstate standard pre-I-95 route, and then in the Interstate era double the bridge and build I-295 to provide the needed linkages and major capacity expansions in this SE PA bypass?
Pennsylvania didn't have to do one foot of construction to build that outer freeway I-95 bypass of Philadelphia and SE PA. PA I-95 has its major problems but they are greatly relieved by that DE-NJ route pair.
There's a significant amount of thru traffic in that area, many travelers originating in the Northern Virginia / Southern Maryland metro, others coming from DE-1, heading to places such as New York City, and points northeast as far as Boston, compared to thru traffic in the Northern Virginia / Southern Maryland metro, which is more of an origin / destination if anything for most traffic heading northeast / south. It's a poor comparison to make. You can build a megafreeway like the NJTP around Northern Virginia / Southern Maryland, but it's going to carry half or less the amount of traffic the NJTP carries. Most traffic as I mentioned above is coming from / to Northern Virginia / Southern Maryland, and will have find no benefits of a bypass.
I'm getting vomiting (the material that comes out of your mouth when you have an upset stomach) sick and tired of these demands that Virginia build a hyper-freeway expansion because of Maryland's failings in this region.
See comments above. You can build bypasses all day long, but if the majority of traffic is originating / destined for Northern Virginia / Southern Maryland, which it is, the main route in/out needs to be expanded into a megafreeway with a 3+3 carriageway to accommodate that regional movement. A bypass will not benefit the majority of I-95 motorists, which you continue to believe is all thru traffic.
Maryland shares the Washington region with D.C. and Virginia, and they are responsible to help address traffic needs in the region. They have failed and they continue to fail, miserably.
Virginia is the one who continues to fail miserably with properly expanding I-95 as needed. How is Maryland supposed to help address the traffic needs of the vast majority of the motorists traveling the I-95 corridor from Richmond, Hampton Roads, and points south destined to Northern Virginia / Southern Maryland when such bypass would completely avoid the area?
Tens of thousands of middle-class people (like the commuter that has posted his HOT details here) find that the benefits far outweigh the costs.
Hate to break it to you, but the vast majority of people stick with the general purpose lanes over the HO/T lanes, and they have to deal with the extensive backups that are widespread down the entire I-95 corridor because they opt not to pay the expensive tolls. If everybody used the HO/T lanes, then why are the HO/T lanes free-flowing and the general purpose lanes are horribly congested?
Plus another 45 miles of widening between I-295 and VA-3, to "at least 8 lanes" per your comments.
$4 billion at rock bottom, probably over $5 billion.
A bypass would likely cost well over $5 billion, and benefit a small percentage of people compared to the amount of people a megafreeway along I-95 would benefit, the vast majority of travelers originating from Richmond, Hampton Roads, and points south destined to Northern Virginia / Southern Maryland, and the small amount of thru traffic.
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. 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. Ideally, a bypass and 3+3 setup would be the best thing, but a 3+3 setup is definitely a place to start.
Not on US-1, far to low type to handle any significant diversion.
US-1 is already clogged, as is I-95. There are a decent amount of people who will avoid tolls at all costs, and would only choke US-1 more.
Nope. That is only funding 60 miles of simple one-lane widening on a 325-mile route.
Your scheme would require at least $2 billion and probably $3 billion in toll revenue bonds.
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.