[CPEO-MEF] REALIGNMENT: Northern Virginia traffic

[Lenny Siegel <lennysiegel@gmail.com>]

Crush of defense workers headed for N.Va. creates challenges, opportunities

By Miranda S. Spivack
Washington Post
May 9, 2010

Plans to move more than 19,000 defense workers to far-flung sites along 
Interstate 95 in Northern Virginia by fall 2011 are expected to add 
thousands of car commuters to the region's road network, further 
clogging an area with the nation's second-worst traffic.

State and local officials, running short of time and money, aren't 
certain they can do enough to widen roads, build exit ramps and make 
other fixes by the deadline mandated by the 2005 federal base 
realignment and closings plan. Making matters worse, many workers will 
move from public transit even as regional policymakers push for job 
growth near transit lines.



At least 13,000 jobs are slated to relocate from Crystal City, two 
subway stops from the Pentagon, to areas largely dependent on cars.

The changes will create at least two new choke points along the I-95 
corridor near Fort Belvoir in Fairfax County and near Seminary Road in 
Alexandria.

The BRAC job shifts stem from post-9/11 worries by federal officials 
that the cluster of defense operations near the Pentagon and Reagan 
National Airport are at risk of attack, threatening national security.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/05/08/AR2010050803330.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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