This is the beautiful new running track at the new T.C. Williams High School. As nice as it is, several deficiencies were noted prior to construction, to no avail. One was building it to championship level 8-lane specifications. A somewhat specious argument stated that it could not be done. It was constructed in such a way as to preclude it ever becoming 8-lanes (note the retaining wall at the far end of the picture).
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The other deficiency is a lack of lighting; 100 million was spent on the new high school, and the field and track has no lighting. The lack of lighting, even the low illumination type, drastically reduces a tracks usability in the evenings, and in the winter months when in gets dark early.
