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The Dulles Greenway is a limited-access highway in the northern part of Virginia near Washington, DC. The road was privately built and is not a public asset. The current owner is called "Toll Road Investors Partnership II" which is a consortium of the Bryant/Crane Family LLC, and Kellogg Brown & Root It runs for 14 miles in a Southwest to Northeast direction, from the end of the publicly-funded and owned Dulles Toll Road near Dulles International Airport to Virginia highway 7 near Leesburg. The speed limit is 65 miles per hour.
The road was envisioned as early as the 1970s, when new residents were attracted to Loudoun County because of the low cost of real estate compared with other areas in the Washington metro region. The road was finally finished in 1995 and is often cited as a success story of public-private partnership. The road is expensive to drive, with toll of $2.75 during rush hour and $2.35 at other times for a two-axle vehicle. That translates to $0.196 and $0.168 per mile respectively, assuming a driver travels the entire length. The Greenway does not discount shorter trips, so the price per mile may be significantly higher. However, the alternative, free routes are state highways 7 and 28, both of which are notorious for traffic jams and accidents which can turn the 14 mile drive into a nightmarish ordeal, adding up to an hour to an already long and stressful commute. The Greenway is environmentally sensitive and passes through picturesque countryside at the eastern base of the Blue Ridge Mountains.
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