Maryland 200 ~ ICC ~ Inter County Connector

[Miss Marty]

Memorial Day Weekend

Got on the Inter County Connector off Route 29 heading from Maryland toward Northern Virginia, DC and followed by a stop at National Harbor.

Spotted a lighted sign with the toll rates but no toll booths.
Seen a neat cell tower that looked like a tall tree.
Very enjoyable drive without the heavy DC Beltway traffic..

This evening, I looked it up on the MD E-ZPass® website
and learned all about the new all electronic toll system.

If you plan to travel on Maryland ICC
or just want to know more about it
be sure to read the following info...

The ICC MD 200 Connecting I-270 via Rt 29 and I-95 (Exit 31) Is Open...

The ICC will be Maryland’s first all-electronic, variably priced toll facility. The purpose of the ICC is to help deliver dependable travel times with a relatively congestion-free highway. To accomplish this goal, tolls will vary to help manage the amount of traffic, with a higher toll during peak periods and a lower toll during off-peak and overnight hours.

There will not be any toll booths or credit/cash toll collection on the ICC. All tolls will be collected electronically at highway speeds using E-ZPass® technology, as vehicles pass beneath tolling structures.

For those users who do not own an E-ZPass® :

Upon entering the ICC, a photo of your vehicle's license plate will be taken and a statement will be mailed to the registered owner's address for the amount of the toll plus a service charge. This service charge helps offset the costs of looking up the information, printing, and mailing the statement.

Hope ICC tolling structures was able to read our E-ZPass®.

Also noticed a lot of signage for I-495 & E-ZPass® is this something new?

 

[am1]

Perfect for someone with out of country plates.

But yes this may be a good alternative to grid lock. It may seem expensive but so can sitting in traffic.

 

[ronparise]

There was talk of an "outer beltway" from the time that the Beltway itself was completed in the early 1960's I drove those 66 miles the first day the last link opened to traffic....I cant believe its been 50 years

This inter-county connector (just 2 counties Montgomery and Prince Georges) may be the beginning, but it sure would be something to bring it further east into Anne Arundel County and hook up with Rt 50...and maybe a southern leg to pick up Calvert and Charles Counties (have you ever tried to drive rt 301 in Waldorf) and a new Lower Potomac Rive Bridge into Virginia.

That would be a real intercounty connector

 

[Free2Roam]

Also noticed a lot of signage for I-495 & E-ZPass® is this something new?

Yes fairy new and makes my commute a dream!! it's worth every penny to me.

 

[nightnurse613]

In conjunction with this project, there are ICC Commuter buses from BWI Airport that have been operating for a couple of years. The ride is $5 each way, the buses are like new and travel pretty regularly (every hour) daily. I use them to connect to the Shady Grove METRO near Rockville, MD whenever I prefer not to rent a car (or have the good fortune not to have to rent a car). Once on the METRO, the whole Washington DC area is your oyster! This is one of those projects where Maryland planned 10 or twenty years out - when you drive the toll way now it is practically empty.