Dodging Decisions On Virginia Traffic
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The July 8 Post contained two articles about local traffic.
A front-page story ["Traffic Eases Nationwide -- Except in D.C., Study Finds"] reported on a study that found that the "Washington area continues to rank second to Los Angeles in auto congestion, which causes the average driver . . . to waste 62 hours a year" and 42 gallons of gas. And an editorial ["Fairfax at an Off-Ramp"] discussed Virginia's county roads, which have suffered from a lack of funds.
One contributor to the heavy local traffic is through traffic, including many trucks, heading north in the absence of an alternate route. Forty years ago, there was discussion of an eastern or western bypass in Fairfax to alleviate that problem; back then, when there was plenty of undeveloped land, it would have been easy to build such a bypass. But the politicians did not have the courage or audacity to do what was right, then or now. They would rather collect votes.
NORBERT FLATOW
Springfield
