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PARRIS N. GLENDENING, Governor
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JR. 14
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Albert R. Wynn, Steny Hamilton Hoyer, Roscoe G. Bartlett, Elijah E. Cummings, and
Constance A. Morella, House Office Building, Washington, D.C. 20515.
Signed May 16, 2002.
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Joint Resolution No. 14
(Senate Joint Resolution No. 8)
A Senate Joint Resolution concerning
State Highways - Intercounty Connector - Restart of Environmental Impact
Statement Process
FOR the purpose of urging the Governor to instruct the Secretary of the Department
of Transportation to restart and bring to its full conclusion a National
Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) environmental impact statement process to
study the Intercounty Connector (ICC), a limited-access, east-west,
multi-modal connector that would accommodate general purpose, HOV/carpool,
and bus-rapid-transit service, with integrated hiker-biker trails, to facilitate
access between Montgomery County, Prince George's County, Greater
Baltimore, and other locations throughout the State of Maryland.
WHEREAS, New road and highway construction in suburban Maryland has
lagged significantly behind both population and job growth over the past several
decades; and
WHEREAS, Traffic congestion in the Greater Washington region, particularly in
Montgomery County and Prince George's County, is severe and has dramatically
worsened in recent years, with no projects that will provide significant relief
currently planned; and
WHEREAS, The Maryland Department of Transportation has indicated that the
periods marked by severely congested conditions on the Capital Beltway will expand
from the current average of five hours per day, to over fourteen hours per day by
2020, forcing hundreds of thousands of Maryland residents to endure long hours of
delay each day, diverting many vehicle trips onto already overwhelmed secondary and
arterial roads and inducing increased "cut-through" traffic in neighborhoods,
severely impacting the safety and quality of life of pedestrians and motorists, limiting
accessibility of jobs and affordable housing, and threatening the future of the local
economy; and
WHEREAS, Severe traffic congestion is preventing residents, students, and
businesses throughout the Baltimore-Washington area from taking full advantage of
the many educational, cultural, employment, retail, professional service, and
business opportunities for those in the Baltimore area who are being denied timely
access to such opportunities in Montgomery and Prince George's counties, and
vice-versa, and this reduced accessibility impacts all sectors of the regional economy,
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