All Intensive Purposes

Does everyone in Virginia think that "the state's No. 1 problem [is] its sclerotic road system," or is that more the concern of the residents of the suburbs of Washington, D.C. (who presumably are well represented in the pages of The Washington Post)?

The author allows that "the transportation crisis ... cuts deeply in Northern Virginia, Richmond and Tidewater, [but] is a tougher sell in the state's rural areas." I imagine that transportation spending would be a very tough sell in rural areas. Those folks aren't sitting in rush-hour traffic.