[CPEO-MEF] REALIGNMENT: Ft. Belvoir (VA) traffic

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Moran blasts lack of road funding as relocation deadline looms

By William C. Flook
Washington Examiner (DC)
July 30, 2009

Rep. Jim Moran says he feels like he is watching an asteroid on a 
collision course with Earth.

With a deadline for moving 19,000 military jobs to Fort Belvoir just two 
years away, and only a pittance of the needed $458 million in road 
improvements funded, the veteran Democrat lawmaker is predicting a 
traffic crisis on a far greater scale than southern Fairfax County's 
existing bottlenecks.

"Anybody that drives in that area at rush hour can see that it's already 
at full capacity ... when you add another 19,000 people, most of them 
driving alone, it's impossible for them to move," he told The Examiner 
on Wednesday. "That will just be a long parking lot."

The new workers are set to finish arriving by September 2011 as part of 
nationwide reorganization of military facilities mandated by Congress 
four years ago, a process called Base Realignment and Closure, or BRAC.

...

For the entire article, see
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/local/Moran-blasts-lack-of-road-funding-as-relocation-deadline-looms-8036656-52003052.html

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Lenny Siegel
Executive Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
a project of the Pacific Studies Center
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Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
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