Without improvements to traffic congestion and transit options in the next few years, nearly two out of five local residents say they could leave Greater Washington, according to a new survey.
Roughly one in four residents view traffic, congestion and infrastructure as the biggest long-term challenge facing the region, followed by inflation, cost of living and poverty, per an open-ended question asked in the survey published Oct. 31 by Annapolis research firm OpinionWorks and sponsored by the Northern Virginia Transportation Coalition, a group of 25 local chambers of commerce and other business organizations in D.C., suburban Maryland and Northern Virginia.
This offers another snapshot of long-running regional woes, though much of what played out in the survey may be more of a wish list without the millions in funding to enact changes. But regional leaders fear these could cause more of an exodus of sorts from the D.C. area in the current era, as more workers find less expensive and…
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