The whole is greater than the sum of those parts, said Virginia Transportation Secretary Aubrey Layne. While the Metro transit system struggles to find its way and Democrats squabble with Republicans over Maryland’s transportation program, Virginia is on a pretty good roll. The program, he said, is a potential breakthrough for travel on the East Coast. “We’ve done everything we promised to do” for Northern Virginia, he told the Commonwealth Transportation Board in early June. Layne thinks of that southern extension of the high-occupancy toll lanes in combination with the planned northern extension upI-395 inside the Beltway to the area around the Pentagon.

Source: Washington Post July 02, 2016 19:32 UTC