The deadline for moving tens of thousands of defense workers around the Washington area came and went Thursday without the cataclysmic traffic problems local officials had been dreading for months. “We didn’t have anything different from business as usual,” said Jody Donaldson, a police spokesman in Alexandria, where workers at the new Mark Center office complex were expected to create a “traffic nightmare.”

The shifting personnel are part of the Pentagon’s Base Closure and Realignment process, which added 19,000 jobs in Maryland. Most of the new personnel were already in place by the deadline at what had been the Bethesda Naval Hospital and is now the Walter Reed National Military Medical Center.

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