I-395

Arlington County has run up expenses of $546k on so-called lawyers supposedly challenging the VA/I-395 HOT Lanes in US District Court in Washington DC. The lawyers employed seem to have been recruited from the ranks of the more venomous bloggers, their law suit being full of fiery denunciations of USDOT as making an "outlandish" determination in approving the project, and as being "intentional" in flouting anti-discrimination laws.

Virginia's transportation commissioner Pierce Homer told us in a telephone interview he's very hopeful that the HOT lanes project on I-395 and I-95 from the Pentagon south toward Fredericksburg will prove viable, but he says it's not a sure thing.