Hopefully you have already written to the Board of Public Works. If not, please do so. Here is a direct link you can use.
ACTION ITEM
We need greater numbers! Please spread the message below to YOUR contacts on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Nextdoor, email, and any other way you communicate!
More people need to hear the TRUTH, instead of Governor Hogan’s lies and false promises.
THE MESSAGE TO SHARE WITH YOUR CONTACTS
Thanks for joining in the discussion on the 270-widening, P3 toll lane, massive wreck-in-the-making. A key point in this debate that’s often overlooked is what the tolls will actually be, and how many commuters will be forced to pay or sit in stop-and-go traffic.
According to Maryland Department of Transportation documents, the peak toll rates (i.e., when traffic is most congested and you’re most tempted to use those lanes) will exceed $4 per mile in 2026. That could add up to $50 each way to commute from Gaithersburg to Tyson’s Corner. In order for the private toll road company to profit from this venture, it’s necessary (and this is the plan) to reduce the number of free lanes and actually fuel congestion so enough people will choose to pay the tolls.
You’ll be horrified if you read the letter from the toll company to the Maryland Transportation Authority trying to justify even higher toll rates. Unfortunately what the governor has been saying – that all free lanes remain free – is simply not true.
The decision to move ahead with this inequitable plan, or stop it, rests with Maryland’s Board of Public Works (BPW). The BPW consists of Gov. Hogan, who is playing every trick in the book to move the plan forward, Maryland Treasurer Nancy Kopp, who wisely has opposed it in the past, and Peter Franchot, the swing vote and the state’s Comptroller, who is running for Governor and reading the tea leaves to decide which way to go.
Please use this URL to register your opposition to the plan with the BPW.
Go to Don’t Widen 270.org, where you can learn a lot more details. The BPW may vote on this as soon as their August 11 meeting. Please weigh in immediately. Thank you.