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Maryland Route 200
Intercounty Connector
Route information
Maintained by MdTA
Length	18.80 mi (30.26 km)
Existed	February 23, 2011–present
Major junctions
West end	I-370 in Gaithersburg
Major intersections	MD 97 (current eastern terminus) MD 182 MD 650 US 29
East end	I-95 (temporary eastern terminus) (permanent eastern terminus location under review) US 1 in Laurel (proposed)
Location
Country	United States
State	Maryland
Highway system
Maryland highway system Interstate US State Scenic Byways
← MD 198 → MD 201

Maryland Route 200 (MD 200), more commonly known as the Intercounty Connector or ICC, is a partially-completed toll freeway under construction in Maryland. When completed, it will run between Gaithersburg in Montgomery County and Laurel in Prince George's County. The highway was originally proposed in the 1960s as part of the Washington Outer Beltway. While other parts of the Outer Beltway were canceled, the ICC and the Fairfax County Parkway remained on master plans. The road's long history as an unbuilt proposed road stems from the controversy that has surrounded it over the years.

Proponents of the highway have claimed that it will improve the flow of interregional traffic, relieving traffic congestion on local roads. Opponents of the highway have claimed that the road will (with a few limited exceptions) harm significant traffic flow characteristics (such as increasing drive times, congestion, and costs in the form of tolls), will negatively harm the environment (with air, sea and land impacts), and will disrupt established communities through which it passes. Many of these assertions against the ICC were rebutted in detail in an appendix of the ICC's Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS), which stated:

The alternatives proposed in the SMI Report are not capable of meeting the purpose and need identified in the 2005 ICC Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for the ICC Study Area. While many of the new transportation services and land use incentives proposed in the Report may be valuable tools for meeting other transportation needs in the region, these measures do not sufficiently meet or address the ICC corridor-level needs, and hence, were not retained for further study in the FEIS.

Fulfilling a 2002 campaign promise, Maryland Governor Robert Ehrlich pushed to begin construction of the road and conducted a formal groundbreaking in October 2006. With additional support from his successor, Governor Martin O'Malley, construction began on November 13, 2007.

In early February 2011, it was announced that the first segment of the ICC (from I-370 to a temporary eastern terminus at Norbeck Road) would open to traffic on 22 February 2011. No tolls will be charged on this segment of the road from the date of opening to 6 March 2011. However, due to inclement weather the day before the scheduled opening, the road's opening was rescheduled for February 23, 2011. On the opening morning, over 10,000 vehicles used the highway.

Route description

Maryland Route 200 begins at a directional-T interchange with Interstate 370 near Gaithersburg in Montgomery County, between its MD 355 and Shady Grove Road interchanges. Several new ramps and collector/distributor roads were built between this interchange and MD 355. MD 200 continues northeast from there through Redland Station, turning east to pass over Shady Grove Road, and then over Redland Road, paralleling Mill Creek. The route then bridges Rock Creek just north of Lake Needwood.

MD 200 turns more eastward, running towards North Branch Stream Valley Park, and passing over the north branch of Rock Creek and a second stream over a bridge. The route enters the Norbeck area, where a hybrid cloverleaf interchange with MD 97 (Georgia Avenue) is located. A park-and-ride may be built at this interchange. When the road opened in February 2011, it temporarily came to an end at a temporary traffic light located just east of MD 97 at Norbeck Road.

The route will then curve southeastward toward Layhill, where MD 200 will intersect MD 182 (Layhill Road), shortly after entering the Northwest Branch Recreational Park. The route will travel though the park for a stretch, bridging the Northwest Branch three times, exit the park and then turn eastward near Colesville. Here, it will bisect several neighborhoods before meeting MD 650 at a single-point urban interchange.

MD 200 then will continue eastward, pass through Upper Paint Branch Park and bridge several creeks, including the Paint Branch, and pass between several neighborhoods upon exiting the park. The routing then encounters an interchange with Old Columbia Pike; current designs call for the ICC to pass thirty feet below the road in a cut to eliminate needs for a sound barrier. Just beyond, MD 200 will feature a rather large interchange, made of many directional flyovers, with US 29. This interchange will also add connections to Fairland Road with both MD 200 and US 29. The route continues eastward, featuring a partial interchange with Briggs Chaney Road, and then, just after crossing the border into Prince George's County, it passes over the Lower Paint Branch just south of the Fairland Recreational Park.

The routing then enters Calverton, where the expansive interchange with Interstate 95 will be located. The interchange, mostly a cloverleaf hybrid, will feature several collector/distributor roads built along I-95, stretching from Old Gunpowder Road south of the interchange to MD 198 north of it. The community of Konterra is planned for construction near this interchange. MD 200 will continue for a short distance east of there, interchanging with Virginia Manor Road, before coming to an end at an intersection with US 1 (Baltimore Avenue) in Beltsville. The entire length of the ICC will be 18.8 miles (30.3 km) long, though the toll portion of the highway is only 13.8 miles (22.2 km) of this distance.

Tolls

The Intercounty Connector uses all-electronic tolling, with tolls payable through E-ZPass or license plate technology in which the license plate of a car is photographed. The latter will be mailed a bill to pay the toll along with a $3 service fee. The tolls for the section of the road between I-370 and MD 97 are to vary by time of day, ranging from 60¢ at night to $1.45 at rush hour. Tolls are waived along the road between February 23 and March 7. The $3 service fee for non-E-ZPass users is not to start until April 6.

Funding

The $2.56 billion project is being financed from several sources:

• Maryland Transportation Authority (MdTA) revenue bonds, $1,232,500,000 (50.39%)
• GARVEE bonds $750,000,000 (30.66%)
• Maryland General Fund $264,910,000 (10.83%)
• Maryland Transportation Trust Fund $180,000,000 (7.36%)
• Special Federal Funds $18,500,000 (0.76%)

See § 4-321 of the Transportation Article of the Code of Maryland, which describes the ICC's construction funding plan as enacted by the Maryland General Assembly. Upon its completion, the ICC will be operated as a toll facility of the MdTA. There will be no cash payments of tolls accepted on the ICC. Vehicles will either need to pay tolls using an E-ZPass transponder, or else the vehicle's license plate will be photographed and a bill for the toll plus a $3 administration charge will be mailed to the registered owner.

History

The history of the ICC, marked over three decades of battles between proponents and opponents of highway construction. The route can be traced back to proposals for an Outer Beltway around the Washington metropolitain area in the 1950s. In 1975, the Maryland State Highway Administration (SHA) proposed to develop detailed plans for the portion of the Outer Beltway from Beltsville to Gaithersburg. In 1980, the state of Maryland dropped the Outer Beltway from its long-term plans, with the exception of the ICC. In 2003, Governor Parris N. Glendening declaring the ICC "dead." However, his successor Robert Ehrlich campaigned in favor of the ICC and restarted the project. In 2006, President George W. Bush designated the ICC as one of his priority projects and expedited federal funding. The first portion of the ICC opened on February 23, 2011.

Construction schedule

The ICC will be constructed in five phases, all of which will use the design-build project delivery mechanism.

• A. I-270/I-370 to east of MD 97 (completed)
• B. East of MD 97 to west of US 29
• C. West of US 29 to east of I-95 interchange, and I-95 collector/distributor road improvements along I-95 from MD 212 to just north of the ICC
• D. Collector/distributor road improvements along I-95 from just north of the ICC to north of MD 198
• E. East of I-95 interchange to US 1

Requests for statements of qualification were issued for Phase A in December 2005, for Phase D in August 2006, and for Phase B in August 2007.

The first of the five contracts was awarded on March 27, 2007. The contract, worth $478.7M, was awarded to Intercounty Constructors, a joint venture of Granite Construction Company, Corman Construction Inc. and G.A. & F.C. Wagman, Inc. Construction on the seven-mile (11 km) section between I-370 and MD-97 began in November 2007.

The selection of the second of the five contracts was announced on November 20, 2007. The contract, worth $513.9M, was awarded to IC3, a joint venture of Shirley Contracting Company, LLC; Clark Construction Group, LLC; Guy F. Atkinson Construction, LLC; Facchina Construction Company, Inc. and Trumbull Corporation. This work includes the ICC from a point west of U.S. 29 to I-95, and interchanges with those routes.

In December 2007, construction on the Intercounty Connector officially began.

On September 4, 2008, The Washington Post reported that the Contract B construction contract had been awarded on July 22, 2008 to a joint venture of Kiewit, Corman Construction, and G.A. & F.C. Wagman, at a total cost of about $559.7 million—reportedly 22% higher than previous estimates. The Post story went on to say that protest of this contract award was filed on July 30, 2008 by a joint venture that was not selected, though the bid price from the rejected group was lower. This protest may delay the start of construction on Contract B. On October 15, 2008, the Post reported that the protest was denied by state procurement officer Robert P. Gay and that the losing proposer will file an appeal with the Maryland State Board of Contract Appeals.

On September 12, 2008, the Post reported that Contract D ran into funding issues which will delay its construction. Contract D is associated with the proposed new interchange of I-95 and Contee Road (not part of the ICC). SHA Administrator Neil J. Pedersen stated that the "service roads can be delayed until the I-95 interchange has been built at Contee Road."

In October and December 2010, the Post reported that the segment between I-370 and MD 97 is expected to open in spring 2011. The final paving has been delayed by cold weather. This segment officially opened on February 23, 2011.

There is an extensive minority business program for the ICC.

Opposition

Environmental mitigation

A major component of the ICC is environmental mitigation. In addition to work taking place near and in the right-of-way of the ICC, there are over 50 "off-site environmental and community improvement projects" that will be funded as part of the ICC engineering and construction budget.

In a letter to the editor of The Baltimore Sun, David Marks, a former official with the Maryland Department of Transportation, wrote that the SHA project team "...had the foresight to require substantial environmental improvements as part of the project, and they insisted on broad public input..."

One component of the mitigation is the replacement of parkland taken for the ICC with new land. Replacement lands intended to compensate for these losses include a large parcel of land in the Boyds area of Montgomery County owned by the Eugene B. Casey Foundation. However, the trustees of the Casey Foundation did not agree to the purchase of this parcel, so the State Highway Administration acquired the land by condemnation and the matter was reported as resolved in June 2008. In July 2008, controversy was reported on a similar subject. A 118-acre (0.48 km) parcel of land near the intersection of MD 198 and Peach Orchard Road which had been condemned by the SHA in 1997 for possible use as the so-called Northern Alignment (Corridor 2) was conveyed to the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission to compensate for parkland which will be taken by the ICC. The former owner, Winchester Homes, filed a lawsuit contending that the SHA must offer to sell this land back to Winchester, and in May 2008, Judge S. Michael Pincus of the Montgomery County Circuit Court ruled that "the SHA was contractually obligated to offer Winchester Homes the chance to buy back the property." It was further reported that the state filed an appeal in June 2008.

In the February 2008 edition of the Successes in Stewardship newsletter, the Federal Highway Administration stated:

Since environmental impacts were the major barrier to prior ICC planning efforts, the third EIS team redefined the project-development approach to explicitly include environmental stewardship as part of the project's stated purpose and need. In order to fulfill the ICC's stated purpose "to help restore the natural, human, and cultural environments in the project area from the adverse effects of past development," lead-agency staff used context-sensitive design approaches to minimize or altogether avoid adverse impacts to wetlands and streams in the development of project alternatives.

At least one section of the ICC was re-routed from the master-planned route to reduce environmental impact, though the re-routing led to additional residences having to be condemned as a result.

Eastern box turtles (Terrapene carolina carolina) in the path of the ICC will be located with the aid of dogs trained to find them by scent and moved to other locations in Montgomery County near Boyds and Brookeville.

In a letter to the editor of The Gazette, SHA Administrator Neil Pedersen enumerated a list of environmental mitigation and community enhancements that SHA is funding as part of constructing the ICC.

The ICC is likely to force changes to the 14th hole of the Cross Creek Golf Club, which straddles the border between Montgomery County and Prince George's County. However, it was reported that the 14th hole was surveyed incorrectly, and part of it was mistakenly located on land set aside for the ICC.

In January 2009, it was reported that Eyes of Paint Branch (a group that has opposed the ICC) had recently demanded of the SHA that the contractors working to build the ICC comply with Montgomery County's regulations for the Upper Paint Branch Special Protection Area, which the State of Maryland has no legal obligation to follow.

Construction of the ICC has forced the National Capital Trolley Museum to relocate its car barns, shops, visitors center, and part of its track a short distance to the north. In 2006, the museum's development director made a public plea for relocation help and coordination in a Washington Post op-ed column. The museum suspended operations for relocation in December 2008 and resumed trolley rides in January 2010. In August 2009, the SHA held a public forum at the new and relocated trolley museum to describe the environmental mitigation aspects of the ongoing ICC construction project.

A major environmental concern along the entire ICC project is the impact of stormwater runoff on creeks and streams, during and after construction. Techniques and technologies to treat such water are known as best management practices (BMPs). State-of-the-art BMPs used along the ICC's construction project were described in an article in Land and Water magazine. Some of the methods being used to control runoff were described in a Baltimore Sun "On the Outdoors" column, published after the writer toured several work areas along the ICC's right-of-way:

The ICC project employs teams of "stormbusters" to put down straw and grass seed and erect plastic silt fences in construction areas before it rains to prevent erosion. Solar-powered stream monitors give Baker and enforcement personnel a real-time reading of water conditions. Paved storm-water ditches in older neighborhoods abutting the highway will be replaced by grass-lined swales that will filter and cool the water before it enters tributaries.

The Sun column went on to describe financial incentives that will be paid to construction contractors that meet environmental goals and requirements.

As part of construction work, several archaeological sites have been found in the path of the ICC, including a Native American site near Georgia Avenue and Norbeck Road that contains artifacts dating to the Stone Age; and near US 29, the 19th century homestead of a freed slave, Melinda Jackson, containing numerous artifacts. News Channel 8 reported:

Associated construction projects

Bicycle trail

A bicycle trail has long been in plans to run parallel to the highway, both in Montgomery County and Prince George's County.

However, in 2004, the SHA announced that it was dropping the ICC bike trail from its own plans due to cost and environmental footprint. Since then, there have been proposals to re-route some sections of the trail over existing surface streets, and to cut back or eliminate the trail for reasons of environmental impact and cost.

This move was harshly criticized by several groups, notably the bicycling community, who as The Washington Post states "have been promised much and given little" pertaining to the bicycle trail; however, it also believes that the county planners are assessing the situation seriously and will make the best decision. Eventually, on September 18, 2008, the Montgomery County Planning Board voted to endorse a trail following a route not adjacent to the ICC's route.

The Planning Board's proposal has been submitted to the Montgomery County Council for consideration as a master plan amendment. Bicycle advocates have stated their opposition to the proposal to remove parts of the bike trail immediately adjacent to the ICC. Later, in March 2009, the Montgomery County Council effectively endorsed both approaches, one being a route that did not follow the ICC (in particular, along the route crossing the Paint Branch) but also keeping in place plans for a path essentially parallel to the highway. When contract A opens in February 2011, the bikepath will be complete from Needwood Rd to Norbeck Rd, primarily following the MD200 right-of-way except for a section which follows Emory Lane to Georgia Ave.

Exit list

County	Location	Mile	Exit	Destinations	Notes
Montgomery
	Gaithersburg	~0.00	1	I-370 west to I-270 – Gaithersburg	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
	Shady Grove	~0.50	3B/3A	I-370 eastModule:Jct warning: "road" parameter is deprecated – Shady Grove Metro Station	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance
	Olney–Wheaton	~9.00	9	MD 97 (Georgia Avenue) – Olney, Wheaton	Not Signed as "Georgia Avenue", Signed as Exit 9A (MD-97 South) and Exit 9B (MD-97 North), current half constructed with the eastern terminus at a temporary ramp at Norbeck Road.
	Aspen Hill	~11	11	MD 182 (Layhill Road) – Ashton, Wheaton	Contract B, exit projected to open in 2011
	Colesville	~12.75	13	MD 650 (New Hampshire Avenue) – Cloverly, White Oak	Contract B, exit projected to open in 2011
	Fairland	~15.00	15	US 29 (Columbia Pike) – Colesville, Columbia, BaltimoreModule:Jct warning: "road" parameter is deprecated, Washington, D.C.	Signed as exits 15 A and B. Access from MD 200 east to US 29 north via Briggs Chaney Road interchange on US 29
		~16.25	16	Briggs Chaney Road Silver Spring, Beltsville	Westbound exit and eastbound entrance; eastbound access to Briggs Chaney Road via exit 15B
Prince George's	Laurel
				Future Road A-59 – Laurel	Opening year not known
		17.90	17B	Lua error in Module:Jct at line 204: attempt to concatenate local 'link' (a nil value)., Washington, D.C.
		17.90-18.00	17A	I-95 north to I-195 east / I-695 – BaltimoreModule:Jct error: Invalid "to" argument, New York	Temporary planned eastern terminus, Flyover Ramp to I-95
		~18.10	18	To: Konterra Town Center	Cloverleaf Ramp to Future C/D Road on I-95 for Access to Konterra Town Center
		~19.40	19	Virginia Manor Road – Laurel	Contract E
		20.00		US 1 (Baltimore Avenue) – Laurel, Beltsville	Contract E

See also

• Maryland Route 100, a similar "outer beltway segment" around Baltimore
• Interstate 355, a toll road similar to the ICC (in some respects) in the suburbs of Chicago, Illinois
• Highway 407, a similar toll road through the suburbs of Toronto, Ontario, Canada
• Förbifart Stockholm, a proposed western bypass motorway around Stockholm, Sweden

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68. Robert Dongu (2009-03-19). "Council supports ICC bikeway and area roads option". The Gazette. Retrieved 2009-04-05. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
69. Shown as PLANNED A59 INTERCHANGE on Contract C ICC Roadway Concept Plan Dated March 2007, see "ICC Concept Plan" (PDF). Maryland State Highway Administration. 2007. pp. p. 4. Retrieved 2008-05-11. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help) The Infrastructure Element of the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission Subregion I Preliminary Master Plan and Proposed Sectional Map Amendment states:

    A-59 is an unnamed new roadway to be constructed as a four- to six-lane divided facility between Old Gunpowder Road and I-95.

    "Subregion I Preliminary Master Plan and Proposed Sectional Map Amendment - Infrastructure Element" (PDF). Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission. 2007. pp. p. 43. Retrieved 2008-05-11. {{cite web}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help); Unknown parameter |month= ignored (help)

    On the same page, the Infrastructure Element continues:

    MC-105—an unnamed new roadway to be constructed as a four-lane divided facility between F-12 and A-59 within the Konterra Town Center site. The cross-section for this facility may be modified at the time of conceptual site plan in accordance with the recommendations of county Department of Public Works and Transportation and M-NCPPC transportation staff

    This implies inconsistency between the SHA diagrams for the ICC and the M-NCP&PC report.

External links

• Maryland State Highway Administration Intercounty Connector (ICC) project website
• Maryland Transportation Authority
• The Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission
  • Montgomery County Planning Department's page on the ICC
• Final Environmental Impact Statement (FEIS) for the ICC
• Record of Decision for the Intercounty Connector
• Intercounty Connector (MD 200) on Steve Anderson's DCroads.net
• Examiner editorial: Enough already — build the road
• Washington Post ICC Map
• Starts and Stops on the ICC, The Washington Post
• For Ehrlich, Connector Highway Issue Is Promising but Low-Risk, The Washington Post
• Washington Post editorial endorsing Ehrlich, with specific reference to the ICC: For Governor in Maryland: A second term for Mr. Ehrlich
• Highway Backer a Steady Ehrlich Donor/Proposed Route Crucial to Success of Developer's 'Mini-City' Project, The Washington Post
• One judge will hear both suits against new toll road project
• ICC: The Selling of a Road, WTOP
• TOLLROADSnews: Maryland ICC gets FEIS approval
• TOLLROADSnews: Brown trout can be invasive pest or treasure - trout enthusiast takes issue with us
• TOLLROADSnews: Maryland's new ICC has first build contract awarded
• Unbuilt Rockville Facility (Freeway) on Steve Anderson's DCroads.net
• SHA: ICC Makes Enormous Progress
• Getting it Wrong in the Free State, a blog by Steve Eldrige criticizing the bike trail removal plans in 2004

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