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This 5-page paper examines the Maryland Intercounty Connector (ICC) and whether this proposed superhighway can reduce the current gridlock in the D.C./Maryland area and at the same time, have little or no negative impact on the environment, current housing or towns. Bibliography lists 9 sources.
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solutions have been proposed to deal with the situation. One proposal, introduced by the states governor, Robert Ehrlich, Jr., has been an
Intercounty Connector which, according to the governor, is needed to "reduce crippling congestion" (Ehrlich, 2003). Ehrlich has made other promises too -
namely that The Intercounty Connector will link the high-tech area in Montgomery County (the I-270 corridor to the Baltimore-Washington I-95 corridor
(Ehrlich, 2003). This, he claimed, will help make the economy grow by making desirable job opportunities more accessible to ordinary citizens and skilled employees more available to Marylands high-tech
businesses (Ehrlich, 2003). The ICC, he continued, would also assist in homeland security by "providing a new route in case there needs to be an evacuation of part of metropolitan
Washington" (Ehrlich, 2003). Furthermore, Ehrlichs statements go on to say that the road will be built in an environmentally sensitive way, in
order to protect natural resources, including streams (Ehrlich, 2003). In the meantime, state officials have hoped that the highway construction would begin
in 2006, with the completion date scheduled for 2010 (Shaver, 2003). Although Ehrlichs comments could be considered political posturing, they are actually
based on fact. For one thing, on October 30, 2003, Maryland planners announced design changes to the highway that would lead to less disruption in terms of wetlands and even
surrounding neighborhoods (Shaver (b), 2003). One of the ways in which this would happen is to build narrower roads in "environmentally sensitive areas" (Shaver (b), 2003).
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