Virginia Route 267 is composed of three sections, the Dulles Toll Road, the Dulles Greenway and the Dulles Airport Access Road. The eastbound and westbound lanes of the Dulles Toll Road straddle the Dulles Airport Access Road, which is not signed as Route 267 but shares a corridor and ramps, and is officially considered part of 267.[http://www.virginiadot.org/infoservice/resources/route-index-07012003.pdf] ==Dulles Airport Access Road== The Dulles Airport Access Road is a 4-lane highway that runs parallel to the Toll Road along its median. It is used only for travel to and from Washington Dulles International Airport. There are no general-access exits from the west-bound lanes, and no general-access entrances to the east-bound lanes (with the exception of gated slip ramps to the toll road that buses and emergency vehicles can use). The Access Road was built as part of the construction of Dulles Airport, and opened with the airport in 1962. ==Dulles Toll Road== The Dulles Toll Road (Virginia Route 267) is an 8-lane, 14-mile (22.7 kilometer) highway in Northern Virginia. It was built in 1984 by the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT). It begins just inside the Capital Beltway near Falls Church, Virginia at a connector to Interstate 66 to Washington, DC, travels westward through Fairfax County, Virginia past Dulles Airport, and terminates at the entrance to the Dulles Greenway, a privately owned toll road. Officially, the road is named the Omer L. Hirst - Adelard L. Brault Expressway, in honor of two notable but obscure Virginia state legislators. However, the road is rarely referred to by that name. From the Capital Beltway, motorists exiting onto VA 267 toward Dulles Airport must choose between lanes marked ''Airport Traffic Only'' and ''To All Local Exits''; the ''Airport Traffic Only'' lanes lead to the two westbound lanes of the Access Road. Eastbound, it works a bit differently. Dulles-originating traffic can choose destinations between Herndon exits (putting them on the mainline Toll Road) or further on (starting them on the Access Road), and a transfer exit is provided from the Access Road to the Toll Road before the Reston exits; Access Road traffic to Virginia State Highway 7, the Beltway and I-66 gets separate exit ramps from those of the Toll Road. The Dulles Toll Road is generally congested during rush hour, while the Access Road usually flows freely; this has led a few frustrated Herndon/Reston-area commuters to "backtrack" through the airport during their commute (morning: go west to the airport before heading east toward DC; evening: go all the way out to the airport then loop back east home), dodging both the toll and the traffic. This is illegal without conducting "airport business" of some sort and enforcement efforts and penalties were increased by authorities to counter the practice. A main toll plaza west of the Beltway interchange collects a 50 cent toll in both directions. In addition, toll booths are located on westbound exit ramps and eastbound entrance ramps, which collects tolls of 25 or 35 cents. All tollbooths are equipped with both the Smart Tag (Virginia) and E-ZPass (Maryland to Maine) electronic toll collection systems. HOV-2 restrictions are in effect during weekday rush hours, 6:30 to 9:00am eastbound and 4:00 to 6:30pm westbound, limiting the left lane to vehicles with two or more passengers. Motorcycles and "clean fuel" vehicles (hybrid and compressed natural gas) are exempt from HOV restrictions in Virginia, allowing single-passenger vehicles of those types to use the lanes as well. ==Dulles Greenway== The Dulles Greenway is a privately-owned limited-access highway in Northern Virginia, running for 14 miles northwest from the end of the Dulles Toll Road to the Leesburg, Virginia bypass (U.S. Highway 15/Virginia State Highway 7). The speed limit is 65 mph. The road was privately built and is not a public asset. The current owner is "Toll Road Investors Partnership II", which is a consortium of the Bryant/Crane Family limited liability corporation, and Kellogg Brown & Root. The road was envisioned as early as the 1970s, when new residents were attracted to Loudoun County, Virginia because of the relatively low cost of real estate. The road was completed and opened in 1995 and is often cited as a success story of public-private partnership. Tolls for two-axle vehicles are a maximum of $2.90 during rush hour and $2.50 otherwise, with discounts granted for Smart Tag customers. Some area commuters find the tolls to be expensive and use the alternative (free) routes, Virginia Routes 7 and 28, both of which are generally more congested. ==See also== *Private highway ==External links== *[http://www.virginiadot.org/comtravel/faq-toll.asp VDOT: Virginia Toll Facilities FAQ] *[https://www.smart-tag.com/dulles_toll_road.htm Smart Tag - Dulles Toll Road] *[http://www.dullesgreenway.com/ Dulles Greenway website] *[http://www.metwashairports.com/Dulles/history.htm History of Washington Dulles International Airport] (see the section on "Access Roads") Virginia state highways Toll roads in Virginia
While I'd like to thank VTHawkeye for adding a lot of information to the Dulles Toll Road page, I think some of the information provided is inaccurate, or at least can be confusing. In the second paragraph, in discussing the history of the Dulles Toll and Access Roads, one can get the impression that they were built together at the same time. This is not the case. The Dulles Access Road, which was built by the MWAA solely to get people to and from the airport, opened with the airport in 1964. It only allowed travel to and from the airport. There were no exit ramps from the road going westbound -- just entrance ramps, and there were no entrance ramps going eastbound. It wasn't until the 1980s did the parallel road built by VDoT for the communities of Reston and Herndon open. This is the outer road that is the Dulles Toll Road, which would now allow drivers to enter and exit at intermediate points. So for 15-20 years the road was useless for commuter travel. According to [http://www.restonmuseum.org/timeline.html], the Toll Road opened in 1984. User:Dbenbenn 01:30, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC) The airport opened in 1962, not 64. [http://www.metwashairports.com/Dulles/history.htm] confirms that the first 13.5 miles of the Access Road opened at the same time; the last 2.5 connecting to I-66 weren't built until 1983. User:Dbenbenn 01:55, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC) :Thanks for the fixes -- after I made my additions, I did some more research, and just hadn't come back to fix my errors yet. User:VT hawkeye 05:46, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC) ==Three Dulles roads and VA 267== What do people think of merging this with Dulles Greenway and renaming it to Virginia State Highway 267, with the others redirecting? As it currently stands, VA 267 redirects here, but the Greenway is also 267, and so 267 should properly be a very short page saying that it consists of these two roads. That seems rather poor to me. An alternate solution might be keeping it as-is but adding a link to Dulles Greenway to the top of this page, saying it's also part of 267. --User:SPUI 02:22, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC) :Is the access road also called 267? I don't know, but I don't think so. It was built by the FAA, not VDOT. User:Dbenbenn 03:03, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC) ::The access road is not, but the toll road is. Those are already in the same article, despite the article being named Dulles Toll Road. And it seems stupid to split those two, being hopelessly intermingled. Maybe Dulles highway corridor or something equally invented but descriptive?--User:SPUI 03:46, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC) :::Virginia State Highway 267 seems fine; certainly better than making up a term. And it fits with the highway names for other states. User:Dbenbenn 02:50, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC) ::::It should be noted that the Greenway is also not technically 267, since it's a privately-owned road; the 267 numbering and signage from IAD to Leesburg is a courtesy designation only. But for the naming of a combined article, I think it's better than something contrived. User:VT hawkeye 05:46, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC) :::::Eh, are you sure about that? Is there a law that says that a privately-owned road can't be numbered? Why should it be any different from another public agency or semi-public authority owning a road that's signed as a state road? --User:SPUI 07:41, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC) ::::::The third-to-last paragraph of [http://www.roadstothefuture.com/Dulles_Trans_Corridor.html] seems to indicate that only the toll road is technically VA 267. User:Dbenbenn 02:32, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC) :::::::According to the 2003 Virginia Route Index ([http://www.virginiadot.org/infoservice/resources/route-index-07012003.pdf]) it describes 267 as running "From Routes 7/15 in Leesburg to Route I-66 north of Falls Church, including the parallel lanes along the Dulles International Airport Access Road." -- User:SterlingNorth 13:23, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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Virginia Route 267 is composed of three sections, the Dulles Toll Road, the Dulles Greenway and the Dulles Airport Access Road. The eastbound and westbound lanes of the Dulles Toll Road straddle the Dulles Airport Access Road, which is not signed as Route 267 but shares a corridor and ramps, and is officially considered part of 267.[http://www.virginiadot.org/infoservice/resources/route-index-07012003.pdf] ==Dulles Airport Access Road== The Dulles Airport Access Road is a 4-lane highway that runs parallel to the Toll Road along its median. It is used only for travel to and from Washington Dulles International Airport. There are no general-access exits from the west-bound lanes, and no general-access entrances to the east-bound lanes (with the exception of gated slip ramps to the toll road that buses and emergency vehicles can use). The Access Road was built as part of the construction of Dulles Airport, and opened with the airport in 1962. ==Dulles Toll Road== The Dulles Toll Road (Virginia Route 267) is an 8-lane, 14-mile (22.7 kilometer) highway in Northern Virginia. It was built in 1984 by the Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT). It begins just inside the Capital Beltway near Falls Church, Virginia at a connector to Interstate 66 to Washington, DC, travels westward through Fairfax County, Virginia past Dulles Airport, and terminates at the entrance to the Dulles Greenway, a privately owned toll road. Officially, the road is named the Omer L. Hirst - Adelard L. Brault Expressway, in honor of two notable but obscure Virginia state legislators. However, the road is rarely referred to by that name. From the Capital Beltway, motorists exiting onto VA 267 toward Dulles Airport must choose between lanes marked ''Airport Traffic Only'' and ''To All Local Exits''; the ''Airport Traffic Only'' lanes lead to the two westbound lanes of the Access Road. Eastbound, it works a bit differently. Dulles-originating traffic can choose destinations between Herndon exits (putting them on the mainline Toll Road) or further on (starting them on the Access Road), and a transfer exit is provided from the Access Road to the Toll Road before the Reston exits; Access Road traffic to Virginia State Highway 7, the Beltway and I-66 gets separate exit ramps from those of the Toll Road. The Dulles Toll Road is generally congested during rush hour, while the Access Road usually flows freely; this has led a few frustrated Herndon/Reston-area commuters to "backtrack" through the airport during their commute (morning: go west to the airport before heading east toward DC; evening: go all the way out to the airport then loop back east home), dodging both the toll and the traffic. This is illegal without conducting "airport business" of some sort and enforcement efforts and penalties were increased by authorities to counter the practice. A main toll plaza west of the Beltway interchange collects a 50 cent toll in both directions. In addition, toll booths are located on westbound exit ramps and eastbound entrance ramps, which collects tolls of 25 or 35 cents. All tollbooths are equipped with both the Smart Tag (Virginia) and E-ZPass (Maryland to Maine) electronic toll collection systems. HOV-2 restrictions are in effect during weekday rush hours, 6:30 to 9:00am eastbound and 4:00 to 6:30pm westbound, limiting the left lane to vehicles with two or more passengers. Motorcycles and "clean fuel" vehicles (hybrid and compressed natural gas) are exempt from HOV restrictions in Virginia, allowing single-passenger vehicles of those types to use the lanes as well. ==Dulles Greenway== The Dulles Greenway is a privately-owned limited-access highway in Northern Virginia, running for 14 miles northwest from the end of the Dulles Toll Road to the Leesburg, Virginia bypass (U.S. Highway 15/Virginia State Highway 7). The speed limit is 65 mph. The road was privately built and is not a public asset. The current owner is "Toll Road Investors Partnership II", which is a consortium of the Bryant/Crane Family limited liability corporation, and Kellogg Brown & Root. The road was envisioned as early as the 1970s, when new residents were attracted to Loudoun County, Virginia because of the relatively low cost of real estate. The road was completed and opened in 1995 and is often cited as a success story of public-private partnership. Tolls for two-axle vehicles are a maximum of $2.90 during rush hour and $2.50 otherwise, with discounts granted for Smart Tag customers. Some area commuters find the tolls to be expensive and use the alternative (free) routes, Virginia Routes 7 and 28, both of which are generally more congested. ==See also== *Private highway ==External links== *[http://www.virginiadot.org/comtravel/faq-toll.asp VDOT: Virginia Toll Facilities FAQ] *[https://www.smart-tag.com/dulles_toll_road.htm Smart Tag - Dulles Toll Road] *[http://www.dullesgreenway.com/ Dulles Greenway website] *[http://www.metwashairports.com/Dulles/history.htm History of Washington Dulles International Airport] (see the section on "Access Roads") Virginia state highways Toll roads in Virginia
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While I'd like to thank VTHawkeye for adding a lot of information to the Dulles Toll Road page, I think some of the information provided is inaccurate, or at least can be confusing. In the second paragraph, in discussing the history of the Dulles Toll and Access Roads, one can get the impression that they were built together at the same time. This is not the case. The Dulles Access Road, which was built by the MWAA solely to get people to and from the airport, opened with the airport in 1964. It only allowed travel to and from the airport. There were no exit ramps from the road going westbound -- just entrance ramps, and there were no entrance ramps going eastbound. It wasn't until the 1980s did the parallel road built by VDoT for the communities of Reston and Herndon open. This is the outer road that is the Dulles Toll Road, which would now allow drivers to enter and exit at intermediate points. So for 15-20 years the road was useless for commuter travel. According to [http://www.restonmuseum.org/timeline.html], the Toll Road opened in 1984. User:Dbenbenn 01:30, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC) The airport opened in 1962, not 64. [http://www.metwashairports.com/Dulles/history.htm] confirms that the first 13.5 miles of the Access Road opened at the same time; the last 2.5 connecting to I-66 weren't built until 1983. User:Dbenbenn 01:55, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC) :Thanks for the fixes -- after I made my additions, I did some more research, and just hadn't come back to fix my errors yet. User:VT hawkeye 05:46, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC) ==Three Dulles roads and VA 267== What do people think of merging this with Dulles Greenway and renaming it to Virginia State Highway 267, with the others redirecting? As it currently stands, VA 267 redirects here, but the Greenway is also 267, and so 267 should properly be a very short page saying that it consists of these two roads. That seems rather poor to me. An alternate solution might be keeping it as-is but adding a link to Dulles Greenway to the top of this page, saying it's also part of 267. --User:SPUI 02:22, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC) :Is the access road also called 267? I don't know, but I don't think so. It was built by the FAA, not VDOT. User:Dbenbenn 03:03, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC) ::The access road is not, but the toll road is. Those are already in the same article, despite the article being named Dulles Toll Road. And it seems stupid to split those two, being hopelessly intermingled. Maybe Dulles highway corridor or something equally invented but descriptive?--User:SPUI 03:46, 28 Dec 2004 (UTC) :::Virginia State Highway 267 seems fine; certainly better than making up a term. And it fits with the highway names for other states. User:Dbenbenn 02:50, 31 Dec 2004 (UTC) ::::It should be noted that the Greenway is also not technically 267, since it's a privately-owned road; the 267 numbering and signage from IAD to Leesburg is a courtesy designation only. But for the naming of a combined article, I think it's better than something contrived. User:VT hawkeye 05:46, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC) :::::Eh, are you sure about that? Is there a law that says that a privately-owned road can't be numbered? Why should it be any different from another public agency or semi-public authority owning a road that's signed as a state road? --User:SPUI 07:41, 2 Jan 2005 (UTC) ::::::The third-to-last paragraph of [http://www.roadstothefuture.com/Dulles_Trans_Corridor.html] seems to indicate that only the toll road is technically VA 267. User:Dbenbenn 02:32, 10 Jan 2005 (UTC) :::::::According to the 2003 Virginia Route Index ([http://www.virginiadot.org/infoservice/resources/route-index-07012003.pdf]) it describes 267 as running "From Routes 7/15 in Leesburg to Route I-66 north of Falls Church, including the parallel lanes along the Dulles International Airport Access Road." -- User:SterlingNorth 13:23, 1 Apr 2005 (UTC)
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