Maryland’s ambitious $11-billion public-private partnership

Maryland’s ambitious $11-billion public-private partnership to add managed toll lanes to two Washington, DC-area freeways remains stymied by a bid protest, adding the specter of delays and higher costs to the already controversial project.

In mid-February, the state Dept. of Transportation selected a team led by Transurban (USA) Operations Inc., and Macquarie Infrastructure Developments LLC, known as Accelerate Maryland Partners, to lead initial development of the 50-year progressive P3 that will add express lanes to sections of the I-495/Capital Beltway that rings the Nation's Capital, and feeder I-270, including an expanded Potomac River crossing to Virginia.