[CPEO-IRF] Ft. Meade (MD) access

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Traffic Experts Brace for Congestion at Fort Meade
Key Access Routes Could Be Bottlenecks

By Susan DeFord
Washington Post
August 30, 2007; T12

Moving tens of thousands of new workers in and out of Fort Meade in the 
next few years is the chief worry of area officials as they analyze the 
expansion of the massive military installation in western Anne Arundel 
County.

Key access routes to Fort Meade -- Maryland routes 175 and 198 -- 
probably won't be widened until years after thousands of employees have 
relocated to the Army base in 2011, officials say.

"Transportation presents us with the biggest challenge," said Robert C. 
Leib, a special assistant overseeing Fort Meade growth issues for the 
Anne Arundel county executive.

The number of new jobs expected at Fort Meade is estimated at 22,000, 
which includes the ongoing expansion of the National Security Agency on 
Fort Meade property and defense contractors serving the installation. 
The region expects to gain thousands more jobs as the local economy 
expands to serve the installation's workers. The shift is part of the 
Pentagon's Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) restructuring.

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For the entire article, see
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/08/29/AR2007082901294.html

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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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