Still no consensus on building new bridge over bay

Traffic gridlock or an onslaught of development and environmental degradation.

Those were the stark choices last night facing members of a state committee charged with finding a way to alleviate traffic on the Bay Bridge.

And with no apparent solution to any of those concerns without starting a chain reaction of other problems, the committee failed to come to any consensus last night on whether or not a new bridge would provide an adequate fix.

The Task Force on Traffic Capacity Across the Chesapeake Bay held its last meeting in Easton yesterday, which The Capital viewed via live Web cast last night. The group has...