Below is one of two traffic-flow graphics currently shown at the public information meetings being held by the Chesapeake Bay Crossing Study Blatantly Wrong! conducted by the Maryland Transportation Authority (MDTA). (Note the callouts added to the graphic in red.) MDTA placed Queen Anne’s, Note that MDTA placed Anne Arundel Talbot and Caroline Counties far north of the Bay Bridge even County well north of the Bay Bridge Actual position of Actual position of though the bridge is actually with no direct connection to the Anne Arundel County bridge even though the bridge is Queen Ann’s County located in Queen Anne’s County. actually located in Anne Arundel Actual position of And both Talbot and Caroline County. Talbot and Caroline Counties lie well south of the Counties bridge. Note the actual location of Maryland counties relative to the actual location of the Look at the map! Bay Bridge. The MDTA graphic (top) is blatantly wrong and appears to have been designed to mislead viewers into believing that most of traffic flows to and from counties north of the Bay Bridge. This deceptive graphic appears as though it is intended DC to justify the construction of a new bridge north of the current VA one. MDTA positioned the counties into which the bulk of the traffic flows north of the bridge. Look at the map!This is DE fraudulent. As the percentages of flow clearly show, in non- summer months most of the travel flows between the two counties at either end of the bridge. Most of the traffic that continues through these two counties flows south of the Bay Bridge. 33.2% of the traffic that continues through Anne Arundel County flows south toward DC and VA, while only 24.2% continues to points north. In summer months the difference is dramatic, with 53.8% of the traffic that passes through Anne Arundel County continuing south, while only 21% flows north. The differences would likely be much greater if the studies had been made on weekends rather than weekdays, since the greatest flow of westbound traffic in summer occurs on Sundays. By far, the largest percentage of motorists passing through Anne Arrundel and Queen Anne’s Counties in summer are traveling between points located south of the Bay Bridge. Below are the inaccurate graphics currently being shown at the public information meetings being held by the Chesapeake Bay Crossing Study conducted by the Maryland Transportation Authority The corrected maps below show Maryland counties accurately located in their relationship to one another and to the Chesapeake Bay Bridge. The size of each circle indicates the relative percentage of traffic flowing to that county or designated area. Kent (DE), New Castle Cecil and Harford Counties Counties and areas north in and areas north in PA 2.7% NJ and PA 11.0% Carroll and Frederick Counties, far western MD and W VA 4.2% Baltimore City, Baltimore and Kent (MD) and Cecil Howard Counties 17.3% Counties 2.6% Anne Arundel County 42.6% Queen Anne’s County 48.8% Bay Bridge Montgomery and Prince Talbot and Caroline George’s Counties 14.0% Counties 18.6% Worcester (MD) and Sussex (DE) Counties including Rehobeth, Washington, DC and Calvert, Charles and St. Dorchester, Wicomico and Bethany and Ocean City Northern VA 13.7% Mary’s Counties and areas Somerset Counties 9.1% beach resorts 9.5% south in VA 6.1% Accomac County and areas south in VA 0.4% Kent (DE), New Castle Cecil and Harford Counties Counties and areas north in and areas north in PA 1.6% NJ and PA 7.3% Carroll and Frederick Counties, far western MD and W VA 2.7% Baltimore City, Baltimore and Kent (MD) and Cecil Howard Counties 16.7% Counties 1.7% Anne Arundel County 25.2% Queen Anne’s County 35.2% Bay Bridge Montgomery and Prince Talbot and Caroline George’s Counties 21.6% Counties 14.7% Worcester (MD) and Sussex (DE) Counties including Rehobeth, Washington, DC and Calvert, Charles and St. Dorchester, Wicomico and Bethany and Ocean City Northern VA 30.2% Mary’s Counties and areas Somerset Counties 7.2% beach resorts 33.2% south in VA 2% Accomac County and areas south in VA 0.7%.