Region Forward Blog With the Region Nearing 7 Million People in 2040 Land Use & Transportation Coordination Matters More Than Ever February 14, 2013 New forecasts released yesterday show metropolitan Washington’s population growing by more than 30% over the next few decades reaching nearly seven million...
News Release COG, WMATA Leaders Discuss Shared Priorities including System Maintenance, Core Capacity Improvements and Transit-Oriented Development February 12, 2013 Washington, D.C. – Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority (Metro) CEO and General Manager Richard Sarles spoke before the Metropolitan Washington...
TPB News Region Ranked "Worst" For Congestion, But Options For Avoiding Traffic Are Expanding February 12, 2013 For the fourth year in a row, the Washington region was named "worst in the country" in the Texas A&M Transportation Institute's annual ranking of metropolitan...
TPB News TPB Urges State Leaders to Increase Funding for Transportation February 5, 2013 In a December letter to state leaders, the Transportation Planning Board urged immediate action to increase funding for transportation in the Washington region,...
Region Forward Blog Scaling Up Electric Vehicles in Metropolitan Washington February 1, 2013 Metropolitan Washington regularly finds itself at or near the top of a lot of lists. Some of these distinctions are good such as being the most educated...