2006 CPEO Installation Reuse Forum Archive

From: Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>
Date: 1 Aug 2006 16:01:03 -0000
Reply: cpeo-irf
Subject: [CPEO-IRF] Ft. Belvoir (VA) traffic
 
my Move Requires Many Improvements That Lack Funding

By Alec MacGillis
Washington Post
August 1, 2006

As more details emerge about the Army's plan to bring 22,000 employees to Fort Belvoir, state and local officials are warning that it will create horrific gridlock in southern Fairfax County when there is no money to fix the inadequate road network in that area.

The Army is preparing to shift military and civilian employees from across the region to Fort Belvoir in the next five years as part of the federal base closure and realignment plan. In effect, the move will drop a workforce the size of the Pentagon's in one of the least accessible corners of the region.

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Most of the employees and museum visitors are expected to arrive by Interstate 95 and its interchange with the Fairfax County Parkway. But that stretch of the parkway isn't built yet, delayed by a dispute over environmental cleanup. And an interchange can handle only about 1,500 cars an hour.


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For the entire article, see
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/31/AR2006073101425.html


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