Last week, the regional Transportation Planning Board (TPB) finalized Visualize 2050, its long-term transportation plan for the metropolitan area. The TPB voted to include the Southside Express Lanes, a controversial proposal from the Virginia Dept. of Transportation (VDOT), to add toll lanes to the Beltway from Springfield, VA, across the Woodrow Wilson Bridge, up to Oxon Hill, MD.
Prince George’s County and others on the TPB have raised the concern that the Southside Lanes would block a future extension of Metro’s Blue Line over the Wilson Bridge. The project would also create a bottleneck on the Beltway at Oxon Hill where the toll lanes would end and the traffic would merge into general lanes.
While Prince George’s County and other jurisdictions repeated their concerns at the meeting last week, they allowed the project to advance another step forward. We anticipate that the TPB will debate the Southside Express Lanes again, after completion of environmental reviews next spring.
Parkwood Residents Association 
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