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serve future traffic generated in the developing Virginia suburbs,” rather than today’s traffic that now clogs area highways. It noted that the highway’s “primary function” would be to serve as a “development highway” and found that “land which is now sparsely developed due to the lack of access to the urbanized area could have pressure brought to bear to begin unwanted development and urban sprawl.”
The federal study goes on to say that “more likely, any reduction in through-traffic estimates would be offset by the underestimation of traffic generated by the intraregional shifts in population and employment associated with a western bypass.”
The federal highway planners also held that Virginia’s Highway Department analyzed the western bypass proposal “in a vacuum” without taking into consideration other projects proposed or underway: the Springfield Bypass, the Manassas Bypass and the upgrading of Route 28. “A western bypass would compete with other regional transportation improvements - both transit and highways - for limited available resources,” the federal study pointed out.
Only three to 11 percent of future average daily traffic volumes on the Cabin John Bridge would be diverted to the western bypass if it is constructed with a new Potomac River crossing, according to the federal lighway planners. “A western by
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