I don’t want to read too much significance into this event, but it does make me wonder: Has the transportation issue peaked in Northern Virginia?
Gov. Timothy M. Kaine held a town hall meeting in Ashburn — ground zero for traffic congestion in Northern Virginia. People asked him about the environment, about energy, even about the proposed Dominion coal-burning power plant in Wise County. But nothing about transportation.
Writes reporter Erika Jacobson:
The absence was so noticeable, in fact, that Kaine himself asked the audience where the transportation questions were.
“Does nobody want to ask about transportation?” he said with a laugh.
It’s hard to imagine that Northern Virginians don’t have transportation on their minds. But, at the very least, the Ashburn audience made it clear they don’t find the issue as all-consuming as the developers, construction companies, engineering firms, home builders and other rent seekers might have us believe.