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'RICHMOND, April 11 -- Business and political interests favoring an
outer beltway through Virginia and Maryland have launched a new campaign
to build a "techway" bridge across the Potomac River, the latest in a
series of rebirths for a ring of roads around the traffic-choked
Washington region.'

'Reps. Thomas M. Davis III (R-Va.) and James P. Moran (D-Va.) sent a
letter to Virginia Gov. Mark R. Warner (D) on Wednesday, urging him to
spend $400,000, which the state already has set aside, for a traffic
study of the river crossing west of the Capital Beltway. A federal
study was abandoned last summer after intense opposition from some
Northern Virginia neighborhoods.'

'"You need additional crossings. You build it now, or you build it
later," Davis said today. "You build it later, it's going to cost ten
times the price. To me, this is just something that ought to be done."'

'In Maryland, both of the likely major-party candidates for governor
have breathed new life into the long-envisioned intercounty connector,
which would link the suburbs of Prince George's and Montgomery counties
north of the Beltway. Rep. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. (R-Md.) and Lt. Gov.
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend (D) have said they support building a
connector.'

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