Disaster Evacuation (Impact Statement)
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A. Overview of Multimodal System
o last paragraph ends with “Key factors in evacuation decision making
include:” without listing what the factors are.
B. Lead agency, participating agencies, and non-public participation
o you could add the agencies listed in “Overview”
 Metro, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, the U.S.
Department of Transportation’s Federal Transportation
Administration, the American Red Cross of the National Capital
Area and the American Public Transportation Association
G. References, web sites, etc.
o Add all the sources you cited – there are a lot more websites sited then are
listed in this section
Relevant Goals: Designation of Permanent Web-site for Communicating With
the Public During Emergencies and Disasters: Action
o Need to fix sentence: Governor Warner has approved use of federal
funding an upgrade of the vaemergency.com web site so that is complete,
more fully interactive and will become the first point of reference for
anyone seeking the latest information about terrorist activity or any other
Virginia emergency.
o Could change to: Governor Warner has approved use of federal funding
to upgrade the vaemergency.com web site so that it is complete, more
fully interactive and so it can become the first point of reference for
anyone seeking the latest information about terrorist activity or any other
Virginia emergency.
Provide summary of the integration and implementation plans
o Evacuating the Hampton Roads Area
 Indent the Phase I, Phase II part so that it looks as if it belongs under
Hampton Roads are
o De-bullet the other paragraphs and instead put them in the same format as
“Evacuating the Hampton Roads Area”
o If all the metro-rail stuff is for northern Virginia maybe you could make
that a heading. Right now its hard to tell what area all the now bulleted
points refer to
o Phased Evacuation:
 Is this phasing different then the one under Hampton Roads area??
Maybe you could group them together under the same general
heading
 Phase 1 will consist primarily of the evacuations of the populations
deemed most at risk in the Cities of Hampton, Poquoson, Virginia
Beach, and Norfolk, and the Counties of York, the Middle
Peninsula (Mathews, Gloucester, and Middlesex), and the Northern
Neck (Northumberland, Westmorland, Lancaster, and Richmond).
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Phase 2 will consist primarily of the evacuations of the secondary
at risk populations of the Peninsula (Newport News and the
remainder of Hampton), and the Cities of Chesapeake, Portsmouth,
and Suffolk.
 Most at risk for what??? Why are they more at risk then the other
areas?
D. Describe milestones, schedule, expenditures/resources, and project
interdependencies
o Might help if you put in a blurb (or heading) about what the bulleted
points refer to… milestones, schedule, expenditure/resources, or project
interdependencies
General Comments
o I think you should move what you have under “Relevant Goals” and put it
in “integration and implementation plans” because they are more plans
then they are goals
 The major goal is “Improve the Commonwealth’s preparedness
and response and recovery capability for natural disasters and
emergencies of all kinds, including terrorist attacks.” This is stated
in the introduction.
o Get rid of all the hyperlinks except for the source hyperlinks. Anything
that is important should be stated in the paper.
o Make the formatting consistent throughout the paper. It will help making
it easier to read and more clear.
I-81 Corridor (Impact Statement)
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A. Overview, purpose, and issues for consideration of the multimodal system
o Make a new paragraph at: “The daily traffic volume more than
doubled…”
o You might want to take out some of the figures or put them side by side
with each other. They all look like they are showing the same sort of
thing. Or just show the overall one and the part where construction is
going to take place.
A. Provide summary of the need and purpose, including assessment of
intermodal connectivity
o You could move that list of 18 issues to “relevant goals” because they
seem to be goals that VDOT wants accomplished rather than
needs/purpose
B. Identify constituent projects of the multimodal system
o TBD
Implementation of transit in phases:
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The Interstate 81 Corridor Project :
Phase I:
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o Cut out or fix
General Comments
o You should fix the paragraph spacing that is left over from wherever you
copied the information from. You have to delete the excess returns and
make it fit to the end of the line.
o Get rid of the excess bullets. There isn’t a need to bullet TBD or have an
empty bullet in the space when there isn’t a list.
I-58 Corridor (Impact Statement)
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A. Overview of the multimodal system
o Third paragraph can be deleted or incorporated into first paragraph – it
repeats what is said in first paragraph
B. Lead agency, participating agencies, and non-public participation
o If there isn’t anything following it don’t put a “:” sign:
 Ex: Hampton District:
General Comments
o Make the formatting the same in each paragraph – sometimes you have
bullets in one section and numbering in another.
o Take out any excess [Click here to add….] buttons – replace with TBD
where needed
I-58 Corridor (Quad)
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I like the VTrans heading
Make sure the headings are aligned with each other.
o System Integration and Alternatives Analysis are not lined up with each
other
I-64 Corridor (Impact Statement)
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General Comments
o Run spell/grammar check – it will fix a lot of the grammar errors
o Get rid of [Click here…] comments. Replace with TBD where needed.
B. Identify constituent projects of the multimodal system
o I would say something like “The picture above shows…”. This way you
connect it to the bulleted points.
I-64 Corridor (Quad)
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Introduction
o Fix the sentence that you wrote. “… the whole from” you need add road
or highway between whole and from
o It would look slightly better if there was a tiny bit of space between the
VTrans picture and the I-64 picture
Make sure the headings are aligned with each other.
o System Integration and Alternatives Analysis are not lined up with each
other
Website
 I would suggest getting rid of the tba and putting a comment below the chart
saying “approximately 12 more to be determined” or something like that