Maryland’s Board of Public Works has approved the initial contract for the Beltway/I-270 managed lanes project, clearing the way for design work to get underway on the multi-billion highway expansion program outside the Nation’s Capital.
The vote comes more than six months after the state Dept. of Transportation selected a team led by Transurban (USA) Operations Inc., and Macquarie Infrastructure Developments LLC for the development phase of a progressive public-private partnership plan to add tolled express lanes to 37 miles of the region’s busiest highways.