Virginia officials may sue to prevent the Pentagon from sending thousands of defense workers to Alexandria in September after a damning report by the Defense Department’s inspector general showed the Army misled local officials about potential traffic problems around the new offices. The Army claimed in 2008 that moving 6,400 defense workers to the Mark Center office complex near the intersection of Interstate 395 and Seminary Road would have no significant effect on already heavily traveled roads around a site that has no access to public transportation.
But the inspector general found that the Army was wrong, just as local officials had been claiming for years. Traffic in the area worsened after the Army completed a 2008 study and the Army refused to take those higher traffic counts into consideration, the report said.
