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Two I-95 travel plazas to be rebuilt in revenue-sharing plan | Gallery – The Sun
Chesapeake and Maryland House centers will undergo $56 million redesign; profits will be shared with state
The two-year, $56 million project to rebuild Maryland House and Chesapeake House as a public-private partnership with Areas USA was approved Monday by the Maryland Transportation [...]

Interstate 695 reappears in D.C. – District of DeBonis, The Post
Three years and two days ago, I posted that as part of the 11th Street Bridge reconstruction, the bridge would likely become Interstate 695. Technically, the Southeast Freeway has always been I-695, but it has never been posted. Thanks to a photograph from Adam Froehlig, [...]

ARLINGTON, Va. — A lane from the Fairfax Drive ramp at EXIT 67 is being extended along Interstate 66 westbound all the way to EXIT 69, Sycamore Street. This “spot improvement” (Virginia Department of Transportation) is less ambitious than I had hoped for and I am curious if it will provide much relief after it [...]

Maryland Intercounty Connector opens to Laurel – Dr. Gridlock, The Post
I-270 to I-95 takes 20 min. on ICC – WTOP The newest portion of the Intercounty Connector (MD 200), between MD 97 Georgia Ave. and Interstate 95 opened this morning. While a connection to US 1 near Laurel remains to be completed, the bulk of [...]

I-95 high-speed E-ZPass lanes open at Newark toll plaza – The News Journal (New Castle, Del.)
A nightmare of a construction project along Interstate 95 has been completed.
The Delaware Turnpike toll plaza near Newark now has two dedicated left lanes for cars with EZ Pass — drivers with the transponder no longer have to slow down!
Last [...]

I think the fellow who does the TollRoadsNews blog must have gotten stuck in traffic going from the Pennsylvania Turnpike to Interstate 70 recently because he has a pretty angry post up about the non-direct connection. For the unfamiliar, Breezewood is the eastern end of the I-70/76 concurrency. I-70 splits off from the Pennsylvania Turnpike [...]

That’s No Rest Stop, It’s A ‘Travel Plaza’ – NPR
The second weekend of I-95: The Road Most Traveled features a look at the Delaware Welcome Center Travel Plaza that was recently reopened. The old service plaza was pretty bad and I only went to it a few times over the years. Typically, if I [...]

Over the next couple of weekends, NPR is running a series called I-95: The Road Most Traveled. I-95 is the busiest interstate corridor with 100 million people living along it. I drive on about 3 miles of it every week day and have spent countless hours cruising up to New Jersey (though not much lately) [...]

When Nationals Park was opened in 2008, I was surprised to that the Maryland Department of Transportation had put up signs for it. After all, Nationals Park is in Washington D.C., not Maryland. This happened despite Maryland having a major league team within its borders. Virginia has not put up any similar signs.
In April, I [...]

The latest snowstorm to hit BeltwayLand happened (for the most part) while I was in the Poconos skiing with my wife. We were at Camelback and it is pretty much the same as it always is except that my favorite slope, the Nile Mile has been changed to a blue square from a double green [...]