The American Automobile Assn. support for the I-95/I-395 HOT lanes is just one could expect of that organization, given its dynamics. For the people and communities that will be affected, however, the story is different. We on the West End not want the HOT Lanes because they promised more, not less, congestion, as those lanes speed people from 40 miles South through our neighborhoods to the Pentagon and beyond. Arlington is courageous and right to file suit against the project. The West End already is suffering BRAC and ethanol transloading, now a new indignity threatens. It is time for the Alexandria City Council to quit straddling the fence and come down hard against the HOT Lanes. The City immediately should join Arlington in its suit or initiate its own legal action. In short, tell VDOT “Cool it on HOT lanes!”
