Another Sign of the Times: I-66 Inside the Beltway
A Washington Post account of National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board’s belated decision to add funding for a “spot-improvement study” to the region’s Transportation Improvement Program observed --
“Approval of the $10 million study had been delayed because of controversy over whether it could become justification for adding a lane to the busy highway.
January 20, 2006
Just imagine – actually adding a lane to a busy highway – not to mention spending millions of dollars to study whether “spot improvements” are justified in a corridor carrying more than 100,000 vehicles per day?
What’s next, building new schools and hiring new teachers to address classroom overcrowding?
Is this “radical” thinking or what?
Still confused as to why our region is the nation’s third most congested?