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Jul 25, 2017

The TPB’s July meeting ran nearly a half-hour over schedule as board members discussed and ultimately voted to accept the recommendations of the TPB’s Long-Range Plan Task Force. The board also set Friday, September 22, as Car Free Day in the Washington region and heard from Virginia Railway Express (VRE) CEO Doug Allen about the commuter railroad’s role in the region over the past 25 years as well as its plans for future growth and expansion.

Jul 25, 2017

After a lengthy discussion at its July 19 meeting, the TPB accepted for further study the recommendations of its Long-Range Plan Task Force, a group set up in March to identify a limited set of large-scale transportation and land-use initiatives that could help make significantly greater progress toward achieving long-term regional transportation goals.

Jul 19, 2017

At its monthly meeting, the National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board (TPB) at the Metropolitan Washington Council of Governments (COG) approved a set of initiatives for further analysis to assess their potential impact on the long-term performance of the region’s transportation system and determine if they make significantly better progress towards achieving regional transportation goals.

Jul 18, 2017

The U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Baltimore District, signed an agreement July 18 with COG to begin an approximately $3 million dollar, three-year study on possible ways to address coastal flooding and storm damage across more than 57 square miles in the District of Columbia and surrounding areas of suburban Maryland and northern Virginia.

Jul 13, 2017

The number of children in foster care in the region has declined by 45 percent over the last eight years, says a new COG report.

Jul 12, 2017

A native of metropolitan Washington, Chief Tony Rose has served Charles County in a public safety capacity for several decades. As the Chairman of the 9-1-1 Directors Committee at COG, Rose leads local government 9-1-1 directors, state and federal partners, and landline telephone and wireless communication system providers as they work to coordinate 9-1-1 technologies and plans to better serve residents across the entire region.

Jul 12, 2017

The Transportation Planning Board is scheduled to meet at noon on Wednesday, July 19. The official agenda and all meeting materials will be posted on the Thursday before the meeting. Here’s a quick preview of what’s coming up:

Jul 12, 2017

With a short timeline and after only six meetings, the TPB’s Long-Range Plan Task Force has completed its work of narrowing down a long list of potential projects, programs, or policies to recommend to the TPB for further analysis as that body looks to identify initiatives that could help the region make significantly better progress toward achieving its long-term transportation goals.

Jul 10, 2017

Thomas J. Grizzard, Jr., professor emeritus of civil and environmental engineering at Virginia Tech and former director of the Occoquan Watershed Monitoring Laboratory, died on June 24, 2017. He will be remembered for his many contributions to improving the region's water quality.