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alone would cost at least $1 billion, saying: “If that much money is available to alleviate traffic congestion in northern Virginia, it would be much more prudently spent on improvements to existing road corridors closer to WEashington, on extending the Metro System, and on subsidizing mass transit. ”
In the June 17 policy statement, PEC’s board of directors acknowledged that existing and planned development in Loudoun and Prince William counties may not only require improvements to the Route 234 corridor between Interstates 95 and 66, but also a new north/south road “between Rts. 7 and 50 west of Dulles along the general alignment of Rt. 659.” But the directors maintained that any such roads should be designed to parkway or expressway standards with strictly limimted interchanges and access.
And specifically, the environmental group stated its formal opposition to “an urban development road” crossing the Potomac River upstream from Washington and to “an urban development corridor” in Fauquier, western Loudoun, and the western portion of Montgomery County, Maryland.
Addressing speculation that the governors of Maryland and Virginia have already agreed on a western bypass from 1-95' through Prince William, Fauquier, and Loudoun counties with a Potomac River crossing at Point of Rocks into Frederick County, PEC president Robert Dennis noted last week that such a plan “would breathe new life into the concept of a Piedmont corridor”: an interstate-class road from Charlotte, North Carolina, to Frederick, Maryland, up the east side of the Blue Ridge Mountains basically following Rt. 29, and connecting to the proposed western bypass.
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