MDOT Document Reveals Ardent Opposition to I-270 / I-495 Widening

Official Tally Shows Transit and Technology Preferred to Adding Tolled, Other Lanes

(Rockville, February 12) Public comments on plans to widen I-270 and I-495 show significantly more support for keeping any changes within the highways’ existing footprint than any other viewpoint, according to the Maryland Department of Transportation’s (MDOT) own tally. The figures appear on a single page of a 130-page Alternatives Public Workshops Summary quietly published by MDOT and the Federal Highway Administration in sometime after January 30th. The document has not previously received public attention.

Read more here.

DontWiden270's testimony on HB102

We've been supporting HB 102, a bill which would require the State to get approval from counties it wants to build toll roads through. In other words, a bill that will enable us to protect homes and businesses along 270 from the Governor's widening plan. Learn more and read our testimony here:

Press release: https://bit.ly/2MSv42M

HB 102 packet: https://1drv.ms/f/s!AoX8rDFYHSCSi4RUFgQtPIwKd82pYA

Urge Delegate Barve to Support Legislation to Block Widening I-270

Governor Hogan is rushing ahead with an ill-conceived, wasteful and counter-productive $9-$11 billion plan to widen I-270 –putting homes, neighborhoods and businesses near the highway at risk of getting paved over.

A bill now before the legislature, HB 102, would forbid construction of new toll roads unless they are approved by a majority of the counties they pass through. This bill would give Montgomery County residents a real voice in transportation decisions that affect us and help us create a balanced transportation system that provides good transit alternatives to our ever-crowded highways.

Delegate Kumar Barve, who represents Rockville and Gaithersburg (District 17), is chairman of the Transportation and Environment Committee of the Maryland House of Delegates. HB 102 is coming before Del. Barve’s committee soon.

Click here to tell Delegate Barve you want him to support HB 102.

(Rockville or Gaithersburg - District 17 - residents only, please - we don’t want to send Delegate Barve names of people he doesn’t represent! If you want to urge your own legislators to support the bill, you can find out who represents you here.)