Smart Growth development provides alternatives to expensive and ineffiecient road building projects such as the Techway. These alternatives include creating a balance of jobs and housing and increasing transit:

1. Creating A Balance of Jobs and Housing:
A balanced land use scenario (BLU) is an effort to place jobs closer to housing that is affordable, to balance these both with recreation and services and to connect them all by transit. Preliminary studies in Montgomery County have shown that balancing land use and transportation and placing jobs closer to housing provides significant congestion relief throughout the region.

2. Increasing Transit:
More money should be spent to improve and expand public transportation throughout the region. Transit alternatives must be studied as part of a comprehensive solution to relieving traffic. Transit provides choices for residents and commuters and also connects different parts of the region. Specific transit projects that should be supported include: rail to Tyson's Corner, increased bus service, the Inner Purple Line Commuter Rail and the Corridor Cities Transitway.

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