| rollDC Earns New Funding from District of Columbia to Continue Service for People with Disabilities |
| District of Columbia Mayor Vincent Gray and Councilmember Mary Cheh announced today that D.C. has secured $375,000 in funding to match a federal grant and ensure that the rollDC pilot continues to provide wheelchair accessible taxi service to the public. |
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| TPB Call for Projects for new Transportation Alternatives (TA) program |
| The Transportation Planning Board (TPB) is calling for projects for the Transportation Alternatives Program for the National Capital Region. The Transportation Alternatives (TA) Program is a new federal program under MAP-21 that provides funding to projects considered "alternatives" to traditional highway construction |
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| Council of Governments Officials Call Virginia’s Transportation Bill a Welcome Compromise |
| Leaders at the Council of Governments said the Virginia transportation funding bill is a much needed compromise that will give local jurisdictions the chance to allocate new local funds while increasing the state’s total support for roads and transit. |
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| Council of Governments, Board of Trade Call on Congress to Stop Sequestration |
| The two regional organizations have sent a joint letter urging Congress to avoid the automatic, across-the-board spending cuts. |
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| TPB Approves Projects for Inclusion in Region’s Long-Range Transportation Plan |
| The final vote on the 2013 update to the Constrained Long-Range Transportation Plan (CLRP) will take place in July. |
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| New Plan and Request Highlight Improving Air Quality |
| After years of coordinated actions by area officials, the District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia are formally asking EPA to redesignate this region as meeting its fine particle standards. Public hearings are being held February 19, 20, and 25. The draft fine particles plan and redesignation request are available for download and public comment. |
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| Region to Number Nearly Seven Million in 2040 |
| Projected growth underscores the need for well coordinated land use and transportation decisions in metropolitan Washington. |
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| Scaling Up Electric Vehicles in Metropolitan Washington |
| Recent events at the 2013 Washington Auto Show provided opportunities to promote electric vehicles in the region and to highlight recent work by the Council of Governments in this field. |
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| Region to Conduct Annual Count of Homeless Population |
| Area governments and homeless service providers will begin conducting the annual enumeration or count of the metropolitan Washington region’s homeless population at area shelters. Some of the street and unsheltered count will take place on Thursday due to forecasted inclement weather. |
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| Study Reveals Area Residents’ Opinions on Congestion Pricing, Transportation Funding |
| A new TPB study, What do People Think About Congestion Pricing?, indicates that metropolitan Washington's residents are more open to better-known solutions for raising revenue and reducing congestion, such as adding toll lanes and increasing the gas tax. |
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| Public Comment Release: Draft 2013 CLRP and FY13-18 TIP |
| Released for Public Comment: Draft 2013 Financially Constrained Long-Range Transportation Plan (CLRP) and FY13-18 Transportation Improvement Program (TIP) Project Inputs, and Draft Scope of Work for Air Quality Conformity Analysis. |
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| COG Strongly Supports FCC Move to Develop Mandatory Rules Governing Support for 9-1-1 Service
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 The FCC concluded that the failure of Verizon and other telephone companies to provide sufficient, dependable back-up power and their failure to adequately monitor the transmission networks serving local 9-1-1 call centers was responsible for outages following the derecho storm in June. The report also said the telecommunications carriers had failed to adopt the voluntary actions the agency has recommended for years. (Links to COG and FCC reports included) |
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| COG Map Highlights Centers Essential to Region’s Growth and
Future Success |
| Many of the 139 Activity Centers are expected
to experience major growth in coming decades,
including areas around the Silver Line in Virginia,
Green Line in Maryland and NoMa in D.C. |
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