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Sep 9, 2013

A regional network of express toll lanes on area highways -- giving drivers and transit vehicles a way to bypass traffic back-ups in regular lanes, especially during peak hours -- could garner enough public support to be implemented in the Washington region, according to a two-year study by the Transportation Planning Board.

Sep 2, 2013

"Park it. For a whole day or more."

Aug 27, 2013

A new mobile phone app is offering local consumers an easy way to locate places to refill their reusable bottles with free tap water. The “TapIt Metro DC” app is now available for free at the Apple iTunes app store and will be available later this week at the Google Play store or at freetapwater.org. The app identifies participating businesses within the Washington region using a map interface.

Aug 26, 2013

The Transportation Planning Board in June approved more than $3 million in grants for a number of initiatives in the Washington region to assist low-income individuals and persons with disabilities in meeting their everyday mobility needs.

Aug 19, 2013

Fifteen local transportation projects in the Washington region will receive funding under a new, consolidated federal program aimed at supporting projects that expand travel choices like bicycling and walking, or that make other enhancements like mitigating the environmental impacts of transportation facilities.

Aug 14, 2013

Washington Post columnist Bob McCartney writes about Jeff Bezos's buying of the Post and other local newspapers, capturing COG Executive Director Chuck Bean's perspective.

Aug 12, 2013

Earlier this year, the state legislatures in Maryland and Virginia each approved measures that would raise upwards of $800 million a year in new revenue for transportation, the first statutory increases in two decades or more.

Aug 6, 2013

Council of Governments Executive Director Chuck Bean and staff took a tour of regional energy assets in Charles County Maryland in July which highlighted the integration of power sources that keep the lights on in Metropolitan Washington. From a recently installed solar farm to the wind turbine in Newburg the tour showed that energy production in Charles County is also increasingly sustainable. County Commissioner Ken Robinson was pleased to share that in Charles County “citizens can be extr​

Aug 5, 2013

The Transportation Planning Board in July approved 20 major roadway or bicycle and pedestrian projects in Virginia and the District of Columbia to add to the region's constrained long-range transportation plan, or CLRP.

Aug 1, 2013

Last month the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments approved an update to the Cooperative Forecast of employment households and population. The forecast is primarily used for transportation modeling where it determines how many people are likely to live in each part of the region and where they are likely to travel. This tool also lends insight to other infrastructure and service planning initiatives because it is a best guess of how much growth is likely to occur and where it is li​