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- Northern Virginians spend an average of nine work days
(or 45 hours) a year stuck in traffic? That same traffic
congestion costs local businesses millions of dollars in
lost productivity and sales.
- The Springfield
Interchange Project, one of the largest projects in
the nation, is in on schedule and anticipated to be completed
in 2007.
- National
Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) estimates
that safety belts prevent 15,700 fatalities, 350,000 serious
injuries, and $67 billion in economic costs associated with
traffic injuries and deaths every year.
- Every $1 invested in public transportation projects generates
from $4 to $9 in local economic activity. (APTA)
- Average daily weekday boardings on Metrorail at the Franconia-Springfield
station in January 2006 was 9,400.
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