And the possibility of sucking economic development out of the core metropolitan area to the outskirts, requiring even more long-distance commuting and making traffic congestion even worse. So, too, do the County Executive and the state of Maryland. And the more people know about what it would and wouldn't do, the more business people, commuters and neighborhood groups throughout Maryland, in the District and Virginia are coming to the same conclusion. Montgomery County residents chose transit over roads 52 percent to 32 percent. That complements a finding from a poll taken by the Virginia Commonwealth University Center for Public Policy, which showed that 70 percent of respondents favored managing new growth so that existing roads and mass transit could meet transportation needs, as opposed to 24 percent who favored building more roads.
Traffic congestion continues to be a major challenge in our region.
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