Opinion: Rail is critical to moving Northern Virginia forward

By Danny Plaugher and Scott Surovell, The Washington Post; July 25, 2019

You don’t have to sit in traffic on Interstate 95 or Interstate 66 very long to learn that we have a congestion problem on our interstates. Traffic gets a little bit worse every year, and the numbers back that up.

According to the Federal Highway Administration, since 1990 vehicles mile traveled on the interstates of Northern Virginia and Greater Washington have increased 65 percent, and lane miles have increased 31 percent.

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