North Stafford, Va. — The committee formed to handle the anticipated problems some feared would come as BRAC relocated federal jobs to the area issued its final report, and all appears to be OK.
The Quantico Growth Management Committee said the major relocation was completed with no major impacts to traffic in the Quantico area, and added enrollment at area schools did not increase and more workers who made the move simply chose to commute from their Washington-area homes to the their new offices than move to the Potomac Communities.
Transportation, and moreover, the lack of federal funding for transportation improvements was a major focus of the committee. While no federal money was provided to improve conditions on Interstate 95, add new transit services or a commuter ferry between Maryland and Virginia, the group was successful in getting $2.5 million to engineer the widening of U.S. 1 between Boswells Corner in North Stafford and Triangle in Prince William County.
The majority of those relocated because of BRAC, from points in Arlington, Fort Belvoir, Maryland and Washington, now work at the 719,000 square foot, $323 million Russell-Knox Building on Russell Road at Quantico.
