“We’re talking about a major congestion point, we believe,” Crum said. “Not only in Hampton Roads, but in the state.”
And where is the next congestion point?
We had a highway construction project in my town that lasted decades. In its final years, there was considerable controversy over how slowly traffic moved through a major bottleneck, which resulted in a massive contradiction project to rework the intersection to eliminate the bottleneck.
Which meant another year of dealing with road construction. But when it was finally done, and all the lanes own to traffic, there was no longer a bottleneck.
There.
Instead, there was just as bad a bottleneck, 1/4 mile down the road.
It takes 20 years to design a road improvement that’s good for 20 years of growth, then it takes 20 years to build it. You end up with the same problems, and the same process begins again.