Question Of The Week #4

The biggest current political issue facing Virginia is transportation. Almost every budget meeting has a large part of it devoted to funds for transportation. The Metro is currently being expanded to Dulles Airport and into Loudoun County in order to ease traffic on our roadways. Also on I-495 they are constructing HOV lanes in order to relive some of the congestion during rush hour. Many of the candidates that are running in the local elections have a very firm stance on what they believe transportation should be in the future for Virginia. Since Northern Virginia is one of the fastest growing regions in the country so transportation will always be a major issue that will be on the policy agenda.