Dozens of Montgomery residents packed the Montgomery County Planning Department headquarters in Silver Spring Thursday evening to support the Planning Department’s goal of advancing a new rapid transit system for Montgomery. Citing the proposed system’s potential for offering the best…
WASHINGTON, DC – Last night the Coalition for Smarter Growth presented its Tenth Annual Livable Communities Leadership Award to Gerald T. (Jerry) Halpin, the founder of WEST*GROUP, for his determined leadership in the transformation of Tysons, one of the nation’s…
Virginia transportation officials are pressing ahead with plans for a major north-south highway connecting I-95 in Prince William to Rt. 7 in Loudoun County, even as VDOT figures show the far greater demand for lane capacity lies on east-west routes,…
Martin DiCaro |
Transportation Nation |
April 30th, 2013
A proposed highway that would skirt a Civil War battlefield is raising hackles in Virginia. A group of six conservative Republican state lawmakers, flanked by dozens of local homeowners, announced their opposition on Monday to the McDonnell administration’s plan to…
Following the ins and outs of the many redevelopment projects slated for White Flint isn’t easy. So on Saturday a group of smart growth advocates put together a walking tour of the area to show about 50 area residents what…
Martin DiCaro |
Transportation Nation |
April 25th, 2013
Plans for a major highway in Northern Virginia are taking shape. Officials say the billion-dollar road would spur growth, but opponents say that premise is flawed. The Virginia Office of Intermodal Planning and Investment state has released a study to the influential,…
Herb Caudill |
Greater Greater Washington |
April 19th, 2013
Parking has been called third rail of local politics, and for good reason. At a panel Wednesday on “Getting Parking Right,” Nelson\Nygaard transportation planner Jeff Tumlin put it this way: “People hate the existing system, but they’ll also hate any…
Aaron Wiener |
WCP Housing Complex |
April 18th, 2013
A lot of people will tell you a war on cars is being waged in the District. It’s not really true, of course, but there is a heated debate over transportation in the city, and the most contentious topic is parking.…
Richard Layman |
Rebuilding Place in the Urban Space |
April 18th, 2013
I missed both presentations earlier this week by Jeff Tumlin, one of the nation’s leading sustainable transportation planners as a consultant at Nelson-Nygaard, and author of Sustainable Transportation Planning: Tools for Creating Vibrant, Healthy, and Resilient Communities. On Monday, he…
The McDonnell administration has unveiled its vision for a north-south highway and other improvements to Virginia’s newest Corridor of Statewide Significance. The McDonnell administration has unveiled a recommended alignment for a limited access highway to be built as the backbone…
