[CPEO-IRF] Ft. Belvoir (VA) traffic

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

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.

...


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.

...

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


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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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