Expanding Lejeune may get new gate

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Expanding Lejeune may get new gate
By Trista Talton - Staff writer
Posted : Friday Apr 18, 2008 17:32:34 EDT

JACKSONVILLE, N.C. — The equation is simple — more Marines equal more traffic.

That’s not necessarily welcome news for Camp Lejeune, N.C.-based Marines and sailors, who wait in bumper-to-bumper traffic during the base’s peak morning and afternoon rush hours.

At a base that spans 158,000 acres, has 48,000 Marines, thousands more dependents and hundreds of civilian employees, Lejeune’s three gates are snarled with traffic in the early morning and afternoon.

And congestion will only grow as more Marines move to the area over the course of the next four years. Part of the Corps’ plan to expand the force to 202,000 Marines by the end of fiscal 2011 includes the permanent addition of more than 7,000 Marines at Lejeune. That number doesn’t include more than 800 additional civilian employees or thousands of dependents relocating here.

But base officials have a plan to ease those rush-hour traffic woes, according to a base spokesman.


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