WMATA's Momentum program could be one of the most important transit initiatives for our region in decades. What does the plan include? How will it help Metro to become more reliable? What obstacles do we need to overcome to succeed? How are we going to pay for it? Watch the full video from this live interactive webchat with WMATA's Shyam Kannan.

District residents living in the city’s densest and most parking-scarce neighborhoods will soon be able to apply for a free visitor parking pass, D.C. transportation officials announced last week. The surprise move has raised neighborhood concerns about possible abuse and further erosion of curbside parking for city residents. In recent years, the District’s transportation department has mailed free passes to all households in some neighborhoods as a pilot project. Under the new program, households in all areas where residents are required to purchase a permit to park on the street will be eligible to request a free visitor pass. The free passes will not be sent to individual households unless a resident requests one.

There ought to be a statute of limitations on highway plans, because chances are, if a transportation project was conceived of at a time when rotary phones were the norm, it is just as outdated. But these zombie highway projects from another era still hold a powerful allure over public

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE AUGUST 8, 2013 CONTACT: Cheryl Cort, (202) 251-7516 - cell WASHINGTON, D.C. -- The District Department of Transportation (DDOT) announced today that the Visitor Parking Pass (VPP) program will be available District wide to all Residential Parking Permit (RPP) eligible households and those in ANCs 1A, 1B and

Montgomery County’s push for transportation investment paid a billion-dollar dividend Monday when the state committed money to eight county road, rail and bus priorities. The lion’s share of funding — $680 million — will go to the Purple Line, a 16-mile light rail line planned to connect Bethesda and New