Several Fairfax County Supervisors on Tuesday indicated support for a proposal to extend toll lanes through an 11-mile stretch of the Capital Beltway, despite concerns about neighborhood impacts and bike and pedestrian infrastructure.
During a Board of Supervisors Transportation Committee meeting Tuesday, Michelle Shropshire, the Northern Virginia megaprojects director for the Virginia Department of Transportation, provided an update and overview of the project.
The plan would offer two express lanes in each direction, starting on the western end near the Springfield interchange. The express lanes would continue eastward across the Woodrow Wilson Bridge to the 295 interchange, and then there would be one express lane in each direction for the remaining section of the project to the Maryl