Defense

Pentagon urged to pay for traffic improvements

Fort Meade, the National Naval Medical Center in Maryland, Virginia\'s Fort Belvoir, Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington, Florida\'s Eglin Air Force Base and...

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February 18, 2011 10:58 am

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Fort Meade, the National Naval Medical Center in Maryland, Virginia’s Fort Belvoir, Joint Base Lewis-McChord in Washington, Florida’s Eglin Air Force Base and Fort Bliss, Texas all need traffic management makeovers.

That’s what a new congressionally mandated traffic study says. It also says the Pentagon needs to pay for those traffic improvements. Traffic around those six locations are absorbing large numbers of personnel as a result of the Base Re-alignment Commission recommendations.

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