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Sep 23, 2011

Yesterday’s metro DC Car Free Day far surpassed last year’s participation rate with a record-breaking 12000+ pledges ! That in and of itself is a great accomplishment but combined with Bike to Work Day earlier this year which also broke its previous record with over 11000 participants demonstrates ever-increasing interest among Washington area residents in alternatives to driving.

Sep 21, 2011

Two initiatives will provide policymakers and the public with better information about how the region’s five million-plus residents get around and how much it cost for them do so.

Sep 20, 2011

As we noted in August DC area residents are some of the most economically confident in the nation . Even as the region’s unemployment rate has ticked up slightly over the past few months the region remains in a relatively strong position. Washington’s supercharged housing market is frequently cited as an example of the DC area’s protective economic bubble. The commercial construction sector is beginning to show similar vibrancy.

Sep 16, 2011

In a Washington Post Capital Buinsess op-ed published on September 18, 2011, COG Executive Director David Robertson urges area leaders to look for ways to diversify the D.C. region's economy.

Sep 16, 2011

On September 16, National Journal brought together a group of political leaders and experts at Union Station to discuss the need to improve America’s aging infrastructure during a time of massive deficits and demands for fiscal restraint. COG Transportation Planning Director Ron Kirby was one of the featured speakers.

Sep 15, 2011

The National Capital Region Transportation Planning Board (TPB) is encouraging Washington area Hispanic residents to participate in its 2011-2012 Household Travel Survey. Spanish-language speakers were underrepresented in the previous Regional Household Travel Survey taken in 2007-2008.

Sep 15, 2011

Last year the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded MWCOG with a “Smart Growth Implementation Assistance” grant to develop a climate change adaptation plan for metropolitan Washington. To help guide the plan’s development the EPA and MWCOG recently held four workshops with local officials focusing on specific sectors likely to be impacted. This is a two part series based on those workshops. Part one focuses on the water and building sectors while part two focuses on the transp

Sep 15, 2011

Even as metropolitan Washington’s population continues to increase rapidly – growing by about 15 percent in the past ten years – crime in the region has decreased markedly. This is an incredibly important fact because no matter how hard we push to make the region better if the crime trend were pointing in the opposite direction other improvements would perhaps deservedly fade into to the background.

Sep 15, 2011

Tropical Storm Lee and Hurricane Irene flushed out the remaining algae. Earlier water contact advisories issued by the Maryland Department of Health and Mental Hygiene and the Stafford County, VA Department of Health are no longer in effect.

Sep 14, 2011

The October 15th event will provide free financial education and programming to residents of the District of Columbia, suburban Maryland, and Northern Virginia.