Statistics showing that the WTC will NOT reduce traffic:

• The Bellomo Study in 1989 concluded that a north-south road such as a Western Bypass (currently known as the WTC) would not significantly decrease Beltway traffic and it would increase traffic on sections of east-west connectors such as Rt. 7, Rt. 50, and Rt. 29--up to 43 percent in some cases.
  
  
• The current WTC study shows that such a road would carry an average of 37,000 cars a day, counting both north and south traffic, in the year 2020. Only 2700 of those trips would be between Rt. 95 as far as Dulles. The other 35,300 would be short trips of just one exit to the next.
  
  
• There are 1530 residential structures situated within the power line corridor, plus 104 nonresidential structures, 10 public facilities, and 52 historical and cultural sites.
  
  
• Prince William and Loudoun Counties are proposing to spend upwards of $3 million for the Western Bypass (Route 234).
  
  
• The project is estimated to degrade or destroy up to 450 acres of wetlands, ten times the area lost in the upgrade/link alternative.
  

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