Also, fewer people are buying small cars. There is an upsurge in the purchase of high-horsepower modes of transport, particularly sport utility vehicles. By 2005, Milford says, the advances made to reduce air pollution will be offset by the growth of the transportation sector and Americans penchant for big, heavy passenger vehicles. Anyone who lives and drives in the traffic-congested Fredericksburg area and Interstate 95 corridor might find that hard to believe. The Virginia Department of Transportation and some Fredericksburg-area officials envision the Outer Connector as a way to alleviate traffic congestion.
Roads beget traffic, however.
Before that beltway receives final approval, local and state officials should ask scientists to assess whether it would be hazardous to one s health to live inside such a highway. That is an open question at this point.