They're just writing it off. That's been the story from the beginning. We've spent a lot of time trying to get information on TSM and haven't had any luck. TSM is a way to incorporate a lot of variables. It doesn't have to be all or nothing.
Access management is a complicated concept that can be difficult to understand.
Even grizzled transportation engineers have a hard time defining it. The concept offers a wide range of options - everything from adding deceleration lanes and closing median crossovers to building frontage or access roads. The way access management differs from TSM is that VDOT doesn't have control over it. All of those techniques also are included in the definition of access management. Access management is applicable in many different ways.