Army says local officials green lighted Mark Center

Published December 1, 2011 5:00am ET



The Army lashed out at Virginia officials who have repeatedly criticized its shifting of thousands of defense workers to Alexandria’s Mark Center after yet another report was released Thursday that faulted the Army for failing to anticipate the massive traffic problems it was creating.

The report by the Department of Defense inspector general, the sixth to criticize the Mark Center move, accuses the Army of measuring traffic around the facility on holidays and non-school days, which showed traffic was as much as 35 percent less than it actually is most days.

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