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(Continued from Page 1) in Leesburg. Mrs. Watts told the group that she envisions a route which would connect Interstate 95 north of Fredericksburg with Frederick, Md., via US 15, crossing the Potomac at Point of Rocks to detour traffic west of the Washington area. As justification for the superhighway, she maintained that it would reduce traffic congestion and ensure economic development in Northern Virginia.
Governor Baliles echoed that same point at a Greater Washington Board of Trade meeting. “The logic of a Washington bypass running west of the city is obvious on the face of it and compelling,” the governor said. Calling the outer beltway an “urgent and vital project,” Mr. Baliles maintained that it could divert almost one-third of the traffic that now jams the Capital Beltway ringing the District of Columbia in the Maryland and Virginia suburbs.
But will it?
Just four months after her speech to the developers and real estate agents, Mrs. Watts wrote in a letter to the Waterford Foundation’s executive director: “You are right: It (the outer beltway) will not solve congestion on the existing beltway
The U. S. Department of Transportation agrees. In its study of Virginia’s western bypass proposal, the Federal Highway Administration concluded that it would “primarily
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