By Casey Serin on Flickr.

The price tag for the middle segment of the ICC, from Georgia Avenue almost to Columbia Pike, has jumped another $100 million. BeyondDC points out that Virginia could build the entire Columbia Pike streetcar for less money than Maryland is wasting on the overrun alone for this one segment.

Remember, we built the Washington Metro largely out of the money that the federal government was originally going to spend on the region’s freeways. Imagine what a great transit system Montgomery and Price George’s counties could get for the $2.4 billion (or more) cost of the ICC.

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Tagged: cat:traffic, icc, maryland, roads, streetcars, transit

David Alpert created Greater Greater Washington in 2008 and was its executive director until 2020. He formerly worked in tech and has lived in the Boston, San Francisco Bay, and New York metro areas in addition to Washington, DC. He lives with his wife and two children in Dupont Circle.