An unidentified speaker, a resident, told the St. Mary's County meeting he encountered heavy backups and long waits entering the base via Route 5 and Peg Road, and said the county was working with the state on road improvements.

The resident said he left early at about 7:00 a.m. to check traffic and that his trip to the base exchange took almost an hour. He said the traffic signal at the gate went through “four iterations” before he reached the gate and that, despite multiple lanes, ID checks and security procedures are creating bottlenecks. “It went through 4 iterations before I finally got to the gate,” he said.

He described base security practices as strict, with every ID checked, which he said was efficient but time-consuming. He urged attention to the issue as a commuter and security concern and said, “we're working with the state because a lot of these things are state roads.”

The remarks were delivered as a personal observation in the meeting's public-comment portion; the transcript does not record a motion, staff report, or formal county directive arising directly from these remarks.