[CPEO-MEF] REALIGNMENT: DC-area transportation funding

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Montgomery, Fairfax get funds to handle base relocation traffic

By Miranda S. Spivack
Washington Post
December 23, 2009

Montgomery and Fairfax counties are due for a $300 million boost in 
federal funding to help cope with the downside -- traffic, traffic and 
more traffic -- of federal base consolidations that will also bring 
thousands of jobs to the region.

In a deal crafted by U.S. Rep. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.) and Rep. James 
P. Moran Jr. (D-Va.), prodded along by Maryland Sens. Benjamin L. Cardin 
(D) and Barbara A. Mikulski (D), and pushed through a House-Senate 
defense appropriations conference committee by Rep. John P. Murtha 
(D-Pa.) and Sen. Daniel K. Inouye (D-Hawaii), the two counties will 
divvy up the windfall to help pay for traffic improvements, public 
transit and expanded pedestrian access.

"I had really been having nightmares trying to figure out how we are 
going to get through all of this," said Montgomery County Executive 
Isiah Leggett (D) at a news conference Tuesday with key Maryland 
lawmakers, who announced that Montgomery would be getting the unexpected 
funds to cope with the traffic onslaught from the expansion of the 
National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/12/22/AR2009122203608.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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