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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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Metro Networks Presents ‘The Top Ten Worst Holiday Traffic Tie-Ups In America’ – PR Newswire
New York-Philadelphia-Washington, DC — Interstate 95. This corridor is easily the slowest 225 miles of highway during the holidays. The section from the Delaware Memorial Bridge to the George Washington Bridge is the worst of it.
Left unsaid is [...]

PERRYVILLE, Md. – Right after paying the one-way $5 toll for the John F. Kennedy Memorial Highway there is this awful I-95 sign:This is easiest the ugliest shield on a mainline big green sign* I have ever seen on I-95. It is almost as if the Maryland Transportation Authority, administrator of the toll road, is [...]

CECIL COUNTY, Md. – Drought has made this autumn a disappointing one for foliage in Northern Virginia and even on the roads to Penn State. I was a bit surprised to see the best colors of the season along I-95 between Baltimore and Delaware. Granted, it has been a long time since I traveled this [...]

Higher tolls, fees start today – The News Journal, New Castle, Del.Steve Anderson of nycroads.com, dcroads.net and others tipped me off that the tolls are going up on the Delaware Turnpike. The highway, which includes I-95’s first 11 miles in Delaware, will now cost $4 at the main toll plaza east of the Maryland/Delaware line.
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Traffic to go up and away – The SunNow that the Springfield Interchange is completed in Virginia, Maryland is playing catch-up when it comes to complicated interchanges between I-95 and a beltway. North of the city, the I-95 (John F. Kennedy Memorial Highway)/I-695 (Baltimore Beltway) interchange is being rebuilt with “skyramps” to carry High Occupancy [...]

JAY HANCOCK – Del. might pick your pocket with I-95 lease – The SunA Baltimore columnist comes out against the privatization of the Delaware Turnpike (emphasis added):
Marylanders and other non-Delawareans would pay the inevitably higher I-95 tolls plus any other consequences of placing this economic lifeline in private hands. Leasing I-95 to some corporation [...]

I am off to Philly to claim my winnings for the Nats victory over the Fleas in the 2006 season series. The Ombudsman owes me a trip to Jim’s Steaks.
I will return this evening.
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