We need your help! Please click the Sierra Club message link to tell regional Transportation Planning Board members to vote ‘no’ on Virginia’s harmful plan to build private toll lanes into Maryland.
What’s At Stake: On June 20, the TPB will vote on the last, highly contentious piece of its long-range plan: Virginia’s proposal to put private toll lanes across the Woodrow Wilson Bridge to Oxon Hill in Prince George’s County, MD. It’s called the Southside Express Lanes project, and our broad coalition of advocacy groups and elected allies strongly opposes it.
Here’s why:
The Southside project would likely block any chance of the long-awaited Metro Blue Line crossing the Wilson Bridge into Maryland.
VA is proposing to bring high-priced toll lanes toMD even though the Moore Administration recently withdrew (p. 5) its own plan for inequitable toll lanes on the Capital Beltway from east of I-270 to the Wilson Bridge.
The Southside project would cause a major new traffic bottleneck at Oxon Hill where the toll lanes end. As we’ve seen in Northern VA, toll lane bottlenecks lead to more toll lanes, lead to more bottlenecks, and on and on.
Multiple municipalities, agencies, and organizations have told the TPB they don’t want the Southside Project.
Please tell the Transportation Planning Board today that you oppose the Southside toll lanes and support smart, effective alternatives that meet the public’s real needs. Add your own words or simply send the pre-populated text.
Your message will go to TPB members ahead of the June 20 meeting. You can watch the vote, either live or recorded, here.
Thank you for taking action!
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