Contrary to some predictions, the sun did dawn on November 9th, the sky remained in place.

Transportation-wise everything also remained status quo.

• Traffic congestion in Northern Virginia/Metro DC continued to be the nation's worst.
• I-66, I-95, Routes 1, 7 and just about every other route number remained clogged.
• Virginia's Transportation Trust Fund continued to bleed a half billion construction dollars annually (over $4 billion total since 2002) in transfers to the under-funded Highway Maintenance and Operating Fund.
• Over 27,000 lane miles of secondary roads continued to have substandard pavement.
• The Virginia Transportation Secretary's observation that absent new funding, the highway construction program is essentially out of money in five years continued to be true.

The list goes on...continuously.

Every victorious state legislative candidate in the November 8th election promised to fix transportation.

It hasn't happened yet and it won't unless Democrats and Republicans in Northern Virginia's delegation and legislators throughout the Commonwealth put partisanship and ideology aside and put restoring sustainability to Virginia's transportation program first.

The real measure of Tuesday's election will be not what was pledged in campaigns, but what is produced in the 2012 Virginia General Assembly session.