That what Sen. John Chichester (R-Northumberland) called his party’s delegates in the House.
It’s puzzled me that the Kaine administration hasn’t had VDOT draw up a list of specific projects with timetables of when they could be finished if new funding was found. Instead, it has relied on vague assertions that we need more funding. Talking in billions of dollars versus hundreds of millions House Republicans have offered to fix transportation just doesn’t register with voters. They need concrete examples. Finally, this article from The Post’s Mike Shear and Roz Helderman provides at least a clear negative picture for folks in Northern Virginia will lose if transportation isn’t addressed adequately.
Even as lawmakers squabbled, the Commonwealth Transportation Board on Thursday approved a slimmed-down version of the state’s six-year transportation construction plan.
The cutbacks mean major delays for widening Route 7 and construction of a bridge over Route 29 in western Fairfax County. Other cuts included the Route 28 overpass at Wellington Road in Manassas, a nexus of traffic in a rapidly growing area, and the extension of Mill Road in Alexandria.
Rt. 7 goes right through Dels. May’s, Rust’s and Callahan’s districts. The Rt. 28 overpass would be in the 50th, where an election is set for August to fill Harry Parrish’s old seat. Time maybe for postcards to go out to their constituents telling them the price of intransigence.