Gonna guess that the after-action report will say more message boards telling folks to get off the road due to an accident ahead or bad conditions, and maybe quicker deployment of state police to shut down entrances once the trouble starts. Maybe a beefed up snow emergency authority limiting access to highways might also be in order but tough to execute.
Also, to Tim Kaine - there's a thing called Amtrak that runs from Richmond to right near your office in DC. I forget which side of the Hill the Senate is on, but south there's L'Enfant and you metro 2 stops, and north of the Capitol there's Union Station. You say you've been doing the 2 hour drive every week up on Mondays back usually Thursday since you were elected. How freakin' hard is it to learn Amtrak's schedule and use it once in a while, especially in bad weather?
The after action will say that VDOT needs more money for contractors to clear and treat roads. Which means toll roads and taxes will go up. Which will then be spent on a bunch of bullcrap programs that didnt address the fundamental issues. And then we'll be right back here in 3-5 years with another situation.
