The US Department of Transportation has approved a $516 million loan to the state of Maryland for the construction of the Inter-County Connector (ICC) highway. The ICC is a planned 18-mile, 6-lane highway to connect the I-95 Corridor of the Future in the Washington, DC area to I-270. According to the DOT, there is currently no “contiguous high-capacity” highway “to accommodate east-west travel” in that region of Maryland. A number of groups including Potomac Earth First! have been resisting construction of the ICC.

Maryland plans to repay the loan from toll revenue.