The Intercounty Connector opened between Interstate 370 and Interstate 95 early Tuesday, cutting drive times on a foggy, rainy morning in half for some motorists. The six-lane, 18-mile toll road, also known as Route 200, appeared busier than its first 7.2-mile segment has been since it opened in February. However, the new asphalt remained so wide open that many motorists had trouble keeping to the 55 mph speed limit. Workers began opening the road shortly after midnight with all interchanges open by 12:45 a.m. Read full article > >

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The 18.8-mile Intercounty Connector, scheduled to open in full Tuesday, could be the last publicly funded highway built in Maryland for a generation, as the state’s tolling agency, which financed its $2.56 billion construction, reaches its debt limit, local transportation experts said. Financing for the six-lane toll road linking Interstate 270 in Montgomery County with Interstate 95 in Prince George’s County leveraged the Maryland Transportation Authority’s statewide toll collections. Read full article > >

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ICC puts strain on Maryland’s transportation funds

Substandard concrete was used in drainage inlets installed during construction on the Woodrow Wilson Bridge , a man who supplied the flawed material admitted in pleading guilty to federal charges late Monday. Frederick Precast Concrete also sold concrete used in improvements to Interstate 70 and other projects in Maryland. Read full article > >

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MOSCOW — The navigator of a passenger airliner that crashed in June killing 47 people was drunk, one of several contributing factors in the disaster, Russia’s Interstate Aviation Committee said Monday. The Tu-134 jet belonging to the airline RusAir slammed into a highway just minutes before it was to land June 20 at Petrozavodsk airport in northwest Russia. Five people survived. Read full article > >

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Navigator in Russian that killed 44 had been drinking, aviation committee says

Imagine you’re headed out of town for the weekend in your new Prius. If you don’t own a Prius, don’t worry — this is an alternate reality. You’re leaving Maryland for New York City and looking forward to a leisurely afternoon drive. But there’s a snag — a big one. A small group of private companies actually owns the roads, and they want you to follow their rules — so you can’t get to New York unless you drive a sport-utility vehicle. To get on Interstate 95 north, you’ve got to have an Escalade or an Explorer. On the other hand, the company that owns the roads around Washington allows only green cars, so those big SUVs have no way of getting from New York to vast swaths of Maryland. Read full article > >

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It will be of little solace as you sit in the post-Labor Day traffic morass this week that annually overwhelms Washington, but drivers in Mexico City, Beijing and New Delhi think they’ve got it far worse. Of course, all of those cities have upward of 12 million people, and none is blessed with roads as magnificent as the Capital Beltway, Interstate 270 or Interstate 66 to help them along. They’re among 11 foreign cities all judged to have worse traffic congestion than Los Angeles, the perennial winner of the worst-traffic award in national rankings in which Washington usually finishes second. Read full article > >

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District steers clear of global traffic traumas

Motorists should avoid Western Maryland and Northern Virginia on Friday and Interstate 95 North in Maryland on Saturday morning, when police expect to escort 1,800 motorcycles on a Sept. 11 tribute ride that will require closing some of the region’s most congested highways. The potential for gridlock Friday afternoon is of such concern that the U.S. Office of Personnel Management “strongly urges” federal employees to telework or take leave. A Virginia highway spokeswoman advised all Northern Virginia commuters to treat Friday as a snow day and work from home. Read full article > >

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BILLINGS, Mont. — Rising waters left Montana farm fields and other low lying areas submerged on Sunday, and prompted authorities to close a roughly 70-mile stretch of Interstate 90 as they contended for a second day with swelling rivers. Meteorologists with the National Weather Service also blanketed much of eastern Montana with flood warnings, and warn motorists to be alert for flash floods. The storm that dumped nearly 6 inches of rain on parts of eastern Montana since Thursday had begun to move out of the area, but snowmelt runoff was working its way through streams and into larger rivers that flow through more populated areas. Read full article > >

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Montana officials close Interstate closed as flooding continues in eastern Montana

Coming and going, there’s no escaping the work of Moshe Safdie. The Boston-based architect has two huge, expensive, in-your-face government office buildings in the District, and both sit at essential nodal points of city life. His headquarters for the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, finished in 2008, dominates the intersection of Florida and New York Avenues in Northwest, putting a fortress-like facade to commuters along one of the busiest corridors of the city. And, now, there’s the U.S. Institute of Peace, the large, sandy-white building with the funny, glass canopy on top that sits opposite the Mall next to the Interstate 66 on-ramp. Read full article > >

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Not at peace with building’s style

Ophadell Williams maintains that he was in control of the bus until a passing tractor-trailer veered suddenly toward it in the predawn dark on Interstate 95, one of his lawyers said.

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Bus Driver in Bronx Crash Says He Was Sober and Awake

Phoenix police have arrested Michael Gilliland, the founder of Sunflower Farmers Market and Wild Oats Markets, for planning to pay a minor he met online for sex. He was arrested Thursday upon entering a hotel on Interstate 17, where he was scheduled to…

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A nonprofit group announced the winner of a competition to design a crossing to help migratory wildlife cross a section of Interstate 70 in Colorado.

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Design Picked for Wildlife Crossing

A 19-year-old driver was hospitalised after he crashed his car on an Interstate highway in Sugarcreek Township, Ohio.

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