Virginia, home to one of America’s most congested highways, set to open I-95 Express Lanes extension

Drivers on one of the nation’s most congested stretches of highway can soon utilize a 10-mile extension of Virginia’s Express Lanes network that allows solo drivers to pay a fee to bypass the regular lanes.

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin announced Wednesday that the extension of the I-95 Express Lanes from Stafford County to Fredericksburg, in the outer suburbs of the nation’s capital, will open to motorists beginning Thursday night.

The $670 million public-private partnership to extend the Express Lanes has been in the works since 2018, when the deal between the state and Transurban, the private company that operates the Express Lanes, was first announced. At the time, authorities expected the lanes to open in 2022,

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