Transportation Reform

The Outer Beltway is just one symbol of a state transportation program which has gone off-track. Instead of fixing existing traffic problems, funding transit, and supporting better patterns of land use, the state is diverting billions of dollars to rural highways and seeking to reignite sprawling development.

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I-66: VDOT Pressure on Arlington

Even though Arlington has demonstrated the phenomenal transportation benefits of linking transit and development, VDOT highway engineers and some non-Arlington officials are pressing ill-conceived highway expansion on the community.

VDOT has pressed to widen I-66 one-step-at-a-time toward a possible expansion of the entire highway to six lanes, despite a federal commitment to limit the road to four lanes and despite the fact the traffic will have nowhere to go once it hits D.C.’s streets. VDOT has ignored more cost-effective solutions to relieve traffic including converting to HOV-3 from HOV-2, HOV in both directions, express bus service, and how the shift of new development to the Metro Silver Line stations will help shift workers to transit.

Read the I-66 Environmental Impact Statement >>

In the I-95/395 corridor, VDOT is pursuing a privatized toll lane proposal without having analyzed alternatives and potentially undermining HOV and bus service in the corridor.