Traffic moves across the Capital Beltway’s Woodrow Wilson during rush hour between Virginia and Maryland in this 2018 file photo. Local officials have dropped, for now, a proposal to add express lanes to the heavily traveled bridge. (Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images)
Washington-area leaders voted unanimously Wednesday to drop plans for express lanes across the Woodrow Wilson Memorial Bridge from the region’s long-range strategic plan, but to study the project further with the possibility of bringing it back next year.
The I-495 Southside Express Lanes project called for extending Virginia express lanes another 11 miles, to stretch from the Springfield interchange in Fairfax County, Virginia, and across the Wilson Bridge to the Maryland Route 210 interchange in Prince George’s County…