The free ride on Maryland’s new Intercounty Connector will end Monday.
The highway, which opened its largest section from Georgia Avenue to Interstate 95 for a toll-free trial period on Nov. 22, will start charging drivers as much as $4 for E-ZPass users traveling the full length of the road at peak hours.
The tolls will drop to $3.20 for a full length trip on off-peak hours (5-6 a.m., 9 a.m.-4 p.m. and 7 p.m. – 11 p.m. Monday through Friday) and just $1.50 at night (between 11 p.m. and 5 a.m.).
Drivers without E-ZPasses will be charged a higher “video tolling” rate.
The highway, the first in Maryland to use only electronic tolls, joins the I-270 corridor in Montgomery County to I-95 in Prince George’s County and was 50 years in the making.
Maryland Transportation Authority officials say 32,000 to 44,000 vehicles traveled the new section of the highway each day of the last week. Those numbers are expected to drop to around 20,000 after tolls kick in.
