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Jan 29, 2014

Who does not like a shorter commute? Communities throughout Metropolitan Washington have worked diligently to create a network of Activity Centers that dexterously increase livability –including less time spent on congested roads and packed Metro cars- while enabling our economy to grow. Activity Centers are places that concentrate jobs housing retail and amenities. This approach helps each community get more benefit out of major investments like roads transit service development incentives​

Jan 28, 2014

One approach to ensuring a healthier environment in the District of Columbia and our local waters involves constructing enormous tunnels to collect stormwater and sewage from select portions of the city so that it can be treated at the Blue Plains Wastewater Treatment Plant rather than overflowing into our waterways. This approach is described in DC Water’s Clean Rivers Project .

Jan 28, 2014

Last Friday the Region Forward Coalition met for the first time in 2014 to celebrate the completion of the Place + Opportunity report and to identify the areas of focus for the new year. Greenbelt Mayor Emmett Jordan and District of Columbia Planning Director Harriet Tregoning – Co Chairs of the Coalition – started the conversation by discussing how new investments in infrastructure can be leveraged to support our shared regional goals.

Jan 28, 2014

Region Forward Coalition Vice-Chair & District of Columbia Planning Director Harriet Tregoning and Transportation Planning Board Member & Bowie City Councilman Todd Turner appeared with COG Executive Director Chuck Bean on NBC4's public affairs talkshow, Viewpoint, this past Sunday. They discussed our newest planning reports, Place + Opportunity and the Regional Transportation Priorities Plan .

Jan 27, 2014

Not all of the top strategies for addressing the Washington region's most significant transportation challenges will require traditional infrastructure expansions, things like road widening, adding more transit service, or installing new bike lanes or sidewalks. Earlier this month, when it approved the Regional Transportation Priorities Plan, the Transportation Planning Board reiterated the important role that changes in land-use can play in alleviating roadway congestion and transit crowding, t​

Jan 20, 2014

On January 15, the Transportation Planning Board unanimously approved the Regional Transportation Priorities Plan, the culmination of a multi-year effort to identify the top strategies for addressing the region’s most pressing transportation challenges.

Jan 16, 2014

“For many people this is a neighborhood where you can live you can work you can shop you can have lots of cultural and recreational choices all in the same place” explains Harriet Tregoning Director of the District of Columbia Office of Planning in describing NoMA in a new video from COG and Mobility Lab. She notes that these qualities were created in NoMA a neighborhood in Northeast DC within less than a decade through transit land use and zoning decisions.

Jan 15, 2014

At its January meeting, the National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board (TPB) approved a new plan of transportation strategies to inform area decision-makers as they set budgets and consider projects for 2014 and beyond. The Regional Transportation Priorities Plan stresses the need for a pragmatic approach to future transportation planning in an era of limited financial resources and continued population and job growth.

Jan 14, 2014

Atlanta has Livable Centers. San Francisco has Priority Development Areas. And here in D.C. we have Activity Centers. Different terms similar concepts: places or hubs in large metropolitan areas where future growth is designated encouraged and concentrated.

Jan 13, 2014

Barring any major changes to current funding trajectories, the region’s Metrorail system will face more crowding and less reliability in coming years, which could stunt growth in transit ridership for decades to come.