Cars slow to a standstill outside Bethesda’s Walter Reed National Military Medical Center most evenings, turning Rockville Pike into a parking lot.

The stop-and-go traffic inching along one of the town’s busiest roadways has grown only worse with the addition of thousands of military workers transferred to the medical center seven months ago while state, federal and Pentagon officials wrangled over who would pay for the road improvements needed to accommodate the extra cars.

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