State and county officials in Maryland and Virginia got nearly every dollar they asked for from the Department of Defense, which awarded agencies in each state million of dollars in transportation funds.
Maryland and Virginia received a combined $268.9 million in funding set aside for military hospitals affected by the Army’s Base Realignment and Closure plan, more commonly known as BRAC.
Roads near Walter Reed National Military Medical Center in Bethesda and Fort Belvoir Community Hospital in Fairfax County have been inundated with gridlock since the military completed its shift of thousands of defense workers around the region.
The funds will be spent on transportation projects, such as a new pedestrian tunnel underneath Rockville Pike to connect Walter Reed with the Bethesda Medical Center Metro station, and to widen Route 1 near Fort Belvoir.
Applications from Fairfax County, Montgomery County and the Maryland State Highway Administration received almost all of the $300 million pot of funds set aside by the Defense Department.
