America’s Longest Reversible Road: Interstate-95/Interstate-395 Express Lanes
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Now nearly 50 miles, the Interstate-95/Interstate-395 Express Lanes make up the longest reversible road in the United States. It provides faster, more reliable travel choices between Washington, D.C., and northern Virginia’s rapidly growing suburbs.
Located in one of Virginia’s busiest areas, the need for an extended road to ease travel at peak hours was evident. The express lanes connect to Transurban’s 395 express lanes, and together they provide 63 miles for high-speed travel.
The reversible lanes provide travelers with congestion relief northbound in the morning and southbound in the evening. Reversal occurs midday and overnight, causing minimal traffic interruption during the two-hour operation that engages 298 gates along a corridor with 22 gantries and 349 detection points that collect over 2,000 data points per mile.
Construction to the $670 million project began in 2019 and dovetailed with the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) Rappahannock River Crossing projects at one of the most congested sections of I-95 at Route 17.