A plan to extend toll lanes along an 11-mile stretch of the south side of the Capital Beltway is on hold, after the D.C. region’s Transportation Planning Board voted Wednesday to revisit the project next year.

The board, which includes members from Maryland, D.C. and Virginia local governments, faced a decision whether to include the proposal in the Visualize 2050 transportation plan . Projects have to be included in that long-term plan to be eligible for federal funding.

But leaders said it can be added in the coming years, as they hope to work toward a consensus on what the project has to look like in order to move forward.

“It’s not ready,” Prince George’s County Council member Eric Olson said. “It’s not even close to being ready.”

Virginia’s Department of Transportation has toute

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